Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from West Row is on the famous people list yet
The nearest list is in Newmarket, 8 mi away: 29 names, starting with W. T. Tutte. In Suffolk, 80 towns have someone on the list. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in West Row’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in West Row yet.
Famous people born near West Row
The most names next door are in Newmarket: 29.
Questions about famous people from West Row
Who counts as from West Row?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside West Row’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)
- Nate James: Gill Rickson from London, London, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Pope: Charltonkyle, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Merika Coleman: Terri Sewell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dick Parry: Stephen D. Strowes from San Francisco, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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