#1Famous people · Ashtead, Surrey
A. P. Herbert tops a list of 7 famous people born in Ashtead
At the top of the list is the British politician A. P. Herbert, covered in 12 languages. More than half were born in the 20th century, 5 in all. Per head, the list is long: 4.7 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Surrey has 2.3. George Morton Eden, born in 1806, is the earliest name and Martin Lewis, born in 1952, the latest.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
A. P. Herbert
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1806
George Morton Eden
Youngest
1952
Martin Lewis
Most common field
Writing & Arts
3 people
The best known
Born in Ashtead
The three are covered in 12, 8 and 5 languages: A. P. Herbert, Pete Brown and Patrick Anderson.
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#2Writing & Arts
Pete Brown
1940–2023English performance poet and lyricist (1940–2023)
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Through the years
When Ashtead’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1910s come out on top, with 2 births.
Writing & ArtsMilitaryPolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ashtead is known for
Ashtead has 3.7× the usual share of writers and artists.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ashtead
Another 4, 2 of them soldiers and sailors.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Epsom has the most people on record, 180 of them.
Epsom · 2 miTom Felton & 179 moreEGLeatherhead · 1 miEric Green & 23 more
Ewell · 4 miPetula Clark & 13 more
Banstead · 5 miAngus Deayton & 10 moreKMCobham · 4 miKenneth McAlpine & 7 moreBPTadworth and Epsom Downs · 3 miBernard Pusey & 5 more
Great Bookham and Fetcham · 3 miRoger Waters & 4 more
Esher · 5 miCharles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Ashtead
Who is the most famous person from Ashtead?
A. P. Herbert (British politician (1890–1971)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 12 languages. Next come Pete Brown and Patrick Anderson.
How many famous people were born in Ashtead?
7 people born in Ashtead have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ashtead known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 3 of the 7. That is 43% of the town’s list, against 12% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ashtead?
George Morton Eden, born in 1806. The youngest on the list was born in 1952.
Who counts as from Ashtead?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ashtead’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 (8)
- A. P. Herbert: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pete Brown: Shu Tomioka, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Gascoigne: Toni Frissell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Felton: German Film & Comic Con, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Petula Clark: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angus Deayton: Piers Allardyce, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Waters: digboston, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha: A. Gimm, Gotha, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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