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Photo: nick macneill · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Orford, Suffolk
2 famous people were born in Orford
Ben Barrell, the English cricketer, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The other is Arthur Aldrich. A short trip away, Woodbridge (9 mi) counts 21 famous people, Frank Morley among them. Over 45 years of births, the list goes from Arthur Aldrich (1840) to Ben Barrell (1885).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Ben Barrell
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1840
Arthur Aldrich
Youngest
1885
Ben Barrell
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Orford
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Business
Arthur Aldrich
1840–1908British-born New Zealand honorary consul of Japan
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Known for
What Orford is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Woodbridge has the most people on record, 21 of them.
Questions about famous people from Orford
Who is the most famous person from Orford?
Ben Barrell (English cricketer (1885-1969)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Arthur Aldrich.
How many famous people were born in Orford?
2 people born in Orford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Orford known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Orford?
Arthur Aldrich, born in 1840. The youngest on the list was born in 1885.
Who counts as from Orford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Orford’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 (4)
- Frank Morley: Alfred Hugh Fisher (1867-1945), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Adam Cuerden, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Bright: Thomas Dewell Scott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Eno: How We Get To Next, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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