Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Stanton is on the famous people list yet
Go 8 mi to Thetford and the list grows to 15, with Thomas Paine at the top. 80 towns in Suffolk have at least one famous person on record. 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 Stanton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Stanton yet.
Famous people born near Stanton
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Stanton
Who counts as from Stanton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stanton’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)
- Thomas Paine: Auguste Millière / After George Romney / After William Sharp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Guy Simonds: Canadian government employee, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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