Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Rendlesham is on the famous people list yet
Go 5 mi to Woodbridge and the list grows to 21, with Frank Morley at the top. In all of Suffolk, the famous people on record come from 80 towns. The longest list of any town in Suffolk belongs to Ipswich, with 250. After Ipswich, the next longest list in Suffolk is Bury St Edmunds’, with 84.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Rendlesham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Rendlesham yet.
Famous people born near Rendlesham
Of the towns nearby, Woodbridge lists the most people: 21.
Woodbridge · 5 miFrank Morley & 20 more
Aldeburgh · 8 miMillicent Garrett Fawcett & 8 moreMNFramlingham · 7 miMargaret, Duchess of Norfolk & 7 more
Saxmundham · 7 miHenry Bright & 4 more
Melton · 4 miBrian Eno & 3 moreWRLeiston · 9 miWalter Riggs & 2 moreAWWickham Market · 3 miAnne WalkerBGGrundisburgh · 7 miBartholomew GosnoldQuestions about famous people from Rendlesham
Who counts as from Rendlesham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rendlesham’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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