#1Famous people · Byfleet, Surrey
6 famous people call Byfleet their birthplace
Tom Richardson, the English cricket player, is the most widely known, written about in 8 languages. Second and third on the list are George Mann and Harry Medhurst. Most were born in the 20th century: 4 of them. 4 of them are athletes, more than in any other field.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Tom Richardson
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1864
Benjamin Nicholls
Youngest
1930
Jeremy Wilkin
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Byfleet
The three best known are all athletes.
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#2Sports
George Mann
1917–2001English Test and County cricketer (1917-2001)
7 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
#3Through the years
When Byfleet’s famous people were born
The 1910s alone account for 3 of the births charted here.
SportsFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Byfleet is known for
Byfleet has 1.4× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Byfleet
Still to come: 3 more, from 1864 to 1930.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Chertsey’s, at 83 names.
Chertsey · 3 miRobert Green & 82 more
Shepperton · 3 miJohn Boorman & 7 moreKMCobham · 3 miKenneth McAlpine & 7 more
Addlestone · 2 miArnold Jackson & 6 more
Hersham · 3 miJimmy Pursey & 5 moreBHNew Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater · 2 miBob Hall & 3 more
Ripley · 4 miEric Clapton & 2 more
Weybridge · 2 miHenry Stuart, Duke of GloucesterQuestions about famous people from Byfleet
Who is the most famous person from Byfleet?
Tom Richardson (English cricket player (1870–1912)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come George Mann and Harry Medhurst.
How many famous people were born in Byfleet?
6 people born in Byfleet have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Byfleet known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Byfleet?
Benjamin Nicholls, born in 1864. The youngest on the list was born in 1930.
Who counts as from Byfleet?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Byfleet’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 (10)
- Tom Richardson: Reinhold Thiele, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Mann: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Medhurst: Harry Sagers / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Dodson: Adrian Cable, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Green: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- John Boorman: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arnold Jackson: unkonwn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Pursey: Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Clapton: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester: Adriaen Hanneman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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