#1Music
Brian Eno
born 1948British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)
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Famous people · Melton, Suffolk
The 4 famous people born in Melton, led by Brian Eno
Best known of all is Brian Eno, written about in 64 languages. The British actor Douglas Reith ranks second, ahead of Edwin Lankester. The list runs from Edwin Lankester, born in 1814, to Douglas Reith, born in 1953. The longest list in Suffolk is Ipswich’s, with 250 names.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Brian Eno
in 64 Wikipedia languages
First
1814
Edwin Lankester
Youngest
1953
Douglas Reith
Most common field
Music
1 people
What stands out about Melton’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Melton
Brian Eno leads with articles in 64 languages, ahead of Douglas Reith (7) and Edwin Lankester (6).
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#3Science & Medicine
Edwin Lankester
1814–1874British scientist (1814–1874)
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Through the years
When Melton’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 1.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Melton is known for
1 of them work in Music, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Melton
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Ipswich leads the towns around it, with 250 names.
Questions about famous people from Melton
Who is the most famous person from Melton?
Brian Eno (British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artist (born 1948)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 64 languages. Next come Douglas Reith and Edwin Lankester.
How many famous people were born in Melton?
4 people born in Melton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Melton known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 5% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Melton?
Edwin Lankester, born in 1814. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Melton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Melton’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Brian Eno: How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Douglas Reith: Vbrunophotog, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edwin Lankester: Barraud & Jerrard, Photographers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Fiennes: Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Morley: Alfred Hugh Fisher (1867-1945), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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