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Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Chilworth, Surrey
Chilworth has one famous person on record
The English cricketer Edmund Godwin Austen was born in 1854. Their birth falls in the Victorian era. Readers can find them written up in 2 languages. Nearby, Guildford, 3 mi away, lists 197, led by Lily Collins.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Edmund Godwin Austen
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1854
Edmund Godwin Austen
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Chilworth
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Guildford leads the towns around it, with 197 names.
Questions about famous people from Chilworth
Who is the most famous person from Chilworth?
Edmund Godwin Austen (English cricketer (1854-1932)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Chilworth?
1 people born in Chilworth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Chilworth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Chilworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Chilworth’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 (2)
- Lily Collins: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Phillips: Jennie Stedman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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