Photo: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0Forest Green has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 6 mi away, Dorking’s list holds 47 names, Laurence Olivier the best known. Guildford has the most of any town in Surrey: 197. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180. The Surrey lists hold names for 72 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Forest Green’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Forest Green yet.
Famous people born near Forest Green
Close by, Dorking counts 47 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Dorking · 6 miLaurence Olivier & 46 more
Horsham · 7 miJolyon Palmer & 46 more
Cranleigh · 4 miG.H. Hardy & 7 more
Slinfold · 6 miAnton Dolin & 4 more
Westcott · 5 miThomas Robert Malthus & 1 moreJBGomshall · 5 miJanet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-YerburghRCRudgwick · 5 miReynell Cotton
Brockham · 7 miThomas BurberryQuestions about famous people from Forest Green
Who counts as from Forest Green?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Forest 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 (6)
- Laurence Olivier: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jolyon Palmer: Morio, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- G.H. Hardy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anton Dolin: Kuehn, Nanette, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Robert Malthus: John Linnell, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Burberry: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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