Photo: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Abinger Common is listed yet
Within 4 mi, Dorking lists the most: 47, with Laurence Olivier first. Across Surrey, 72 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Surrey belongs to Guildford, with 197. Epsom has the second-longest list in Surrey, after Guildford, with 180.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Abinger Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Abinger Common yet.
Famous people born near Abinger Common
The fullest list close by belongs to Dorking, with 47.
Dorking · 4 miLaurence Olivier & 46 more
Cranleigh · 5 miG.H. Hardy & 7 more
Great Bookham and Fetcham · 6 miRoger Waters & 4 moreDOWest Horsley · 5 miDavid Ogilvy & 2 more
Westcott · 2 miThomas Robert Malthus & 1 moreJBGomshall · 2 miJanet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh
Brockham · 6 miThomas BurberryEAChilworth · 6 miEdmund Godwin AustenQuestions about famous people from Abinger Common
Who counts as from Abinger Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Abinger Common’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 (5)
- Laurence Olivier: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- G.H. Hardy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Waters: digboston, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Robert Malthus: John Linnell, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Burberry: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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