Photo: Graham Clutton · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Dockenfield, Hindhead lists 9 famous people
No famous person on record lists Dockenfield as their birthplace yet. Guildford’s 197 names make the longest list in Surrey. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180. 72 towns across Surrey can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Dockenfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Dockenfield yet.
Famous people born near Dockenfield
Nearby, Hindhead has the most on record, with 9.
Questions about famous people from Dockenfield
Who counts as from Dockenfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dockenfield’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 (6)
- Colin Firth: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Rolt: Daan Noske / Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Hawkins: Mitchea99, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hew Pike: Jack1956, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Beldham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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