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Photo: Bill Harrison · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Southwold, Suffolk
From 1813 to 1965, Southwold was the birthplace of 7 famous people
Mark Crowe, the English footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The largest group, 3, was born in the 20th century. The list’s best known name, Mark Crowe, dates from 1965. Fewer than a quarter of the 80 towns in Suffolk with famous people list more.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Mark Crowe
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1813
Edward Killwick Calver
Youngest
1965
Mark Crowe
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Southwold
Ranked by languages covered: Mark Crowe with 5, then Maureen Young with 3 and Edward Killwick Calver with 2.
MY#2
Science & Medicine
Maureen Young
1915–2013British professor of perinatal physiology
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
EC#3
Military
Edward Killwick Calver
1813–18926 December 1813 - 28 October 1892
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Southwold’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1880s, at 2.
SportsWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineMilitaryPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Southwold is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Southwold
Here are 4 more, born from 1832 to 1954.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Lowestoft: 48.
Questions about famous people from Southwold
Who is the most famous person from Southwold?
Mark Crowe (English footballer (born 1965)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Maureen Young and Edward Killwick Calver.
How many famous people were born in Southwold?
7 people born in Southwold have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Southwold known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 7. That is 29% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Southwold?
Edward Killwick Calver, born in 1813. The youngest on the list was born in 1965.
Who counts as from Southwold?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Southwold’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 (3)
- Benjamin Britten: Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Martin: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Bright: Thomas Dewell Scott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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