Photo: Hassocks5489 · CC0Badshot Lea has no famous person on record yet
Go 1 mi to Aldershot and the list grows to 122, with Martin Freeman at the top. The longest list in Surrey is Guildford’s, with 197 names. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180. 72 towns in Surrey have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Badshot Lea’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Badshot Lea yet.
Famous people born near Badshot Lea
Of the towns nearby, Aldershot lists the most people: 122.
Aldershot · 1 miMartin Freeman & 121 more
Frimley · 6 miJames, Earl of Wessex & 61 moreDBFarnborough · 5 miDon Beauman & 39 moreRCFleet · 4 miRaquel Cassidy & 12 moreJHAsh and Ash Vale · 3 miJohn Hamblin & 2 more
Crondall · 4 miHarold Maxwell-Lefroy & 2 more
Bentley · 6 miHew Pike & 1 moreASFarnham · 2 miAntoine SeilernQuestions about famous people from Badshot Lea
Who counts as from Badshot Lea?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Badshot Lea’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)
- Martin Freeman: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James, Earl of Wessex: NZ Defence Force, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hew Pike: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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