Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Wingfield is on the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Diss, 7 mi away, lists the most: 8, Declan Rudd first. Ipswich has the most of any town in Suffolk: 250. After Ipswich, the next longest list in Suffolk is Bury St Edmunds’, with 84. Famous people are on record for 80 of the towns in Suffolk.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Wingfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Wingfield yet.
Famous people born near Wingfield
The fullest list close by belongs to Diss, with 8.
Diss · 7 miDeclan Rudd & 7 moreMNFramlingham · 9 miMargaret, Duchess of Norfolk & 7 more
Eye · 5 miMatthew Upson & 5 more
Roydon (South Norfolk) · 8 miBeatrix Havergal & 1 more
Stradbroke · 2 miMary Matilda Betham
Harleston · 4 miHenry Ward
Dickleburgh · 5 miHenry Walton
Scole · 5 miWilliam Gooderham, Sr.Questions about famous people from Wingfield
Who counts as from Wingfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wingfield’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
- Beatrix Havergal: Cecil Beaton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Matilda Betham: Unknown - subject died 1852, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Ward: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Walton: Henry Walton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Gooderham, Sr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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