Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Thorndon, Diss lists 8 famous people
No famous person on record lists Thorndon as their birthplace yet. The longest list of any town in Suffolk belongs to Ipswich, with 250. Bury St Edmunds has the second-longest list in Suffolk, after Ipswich, with 84. In all of Suffolk, the famous people on record come from 80 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Thorndon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Thorndon yet.
Famous people born near Thorndon
The most names next door are in Diss: 8.
Questions about famous people from Thorndon
Who counts as from Thorndon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thorndon’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 (7)
- Declan Rudd: Preston_North_End_v_Liverpool_FC_-_July_2013.jpg: Ross Bradley derivative work: Dudek1337, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Upson: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Brooke-Popham: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beatrix Havergal: Cecil Beaton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gooderham, Sr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kerry Ellis: Steve Lawton Photography, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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