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Photo: Gareth Williams · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Bletchingley, Surrey
4 famous people call Bletchingley their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the cricketer Anthony Allom the best known. Second and third on the list are Bryan Hamblin and Tessa Tennant. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them. The oldest name on the list belongs to Thomas Alexander Barns, born in 1881, the newest to Tessa Tennant, born in 1959.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Anthony Allom
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1881
Thomas Alexander Barns
Youngest
1959
Tessa Tennant
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Bletchingley
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Notable
Tessa Tennant
1959–2018British advocate of sustainable investment
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Through the years
When Bletchingley’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1950s, at 2.
SportsNotableScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bletchingley is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bletchingley
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Redhill counts 80 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Bletchingley
Who is the most famous person from Bletchingley?
Anthony Allom (cricketer (1938-2017)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Bryan Hamblin and Tessa Tennant.
How many famous people were born in Bletchingley?
4 people born in Bletchingley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bletchingley known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bletchingley?
Thomas Alexander Barns, born in 1881. The youngest on the list was born in 1959.
Who counts as from Bletchingley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bletchingley’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 (3)
- Nick Hornby: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Nighy: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Millis Jefferis: Unknown War Office photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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