Photo: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Godstone yet, but Caterham next door has 13
Across Surrey, 72 towns list someone born there. No town in Surrey lists more than Guildford, with 197. Epsom has the second-longest list in Surrey, after Guildford, with 180. The best known born in Caterham is Bill Nighy.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Godstone’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Godstone yet.
Famous people born near Godstone
Of the towns around it, Caterham has the most on record: 13.
Questions about famous people from Godstone
Who counts as from Godstone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Godstone’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 (5)
- Bill Nighy: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Trott: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Millis Jefferis: Unknown War Office photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Douglas Chandor: Agence Rol, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fran Logan: Fran_Logan,_John_Welch,_Toni_Walkington,_and_Paul_Kaplan.jpg: Flickr user cpsucsa derivative work: IgnorantArmies, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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