Photo: Peter Trimming · CC BY-SA 2.0Farley Green has yet to put a famous person on the list
The nearest list is in Guildford, 5 mi away: 197 names, starting with Lily Collins. Famous people are on record for 72 of the towns in Surrey. Guildford has the most of any town in Surrey: 197. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Farley Green’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Farley Green yet.
Famous people born near Farley Green
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Farley Green, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Farley Green
Who counts as from Farley Green?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Farley Green’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)
- Lily Collins: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- G.H. Hardy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Phillips: Jennie Stedman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Robert Malthus: John Linnell, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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