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Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Gomshall, Surrey
Gomshall, birthplace of the fencer Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh
The fencer Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh was born in 1940. Their birth falls in the 20th century. 2 languages have an article about them. A short trip away, Dorking (5 mi) counts 47 famous people, Laurence Olivier among them.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1940
Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Gomshall
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Dorking, at 47.
Questions about famous people from Gomshall
Who is the most famous person from Gomshall?
Janet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh (fencer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Gomshall?
1 people born in Gomshall have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Gomshall 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 Gomshall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gomshall’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)
- Laurence Olivier: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- G.H. Hardy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Waters: digboston, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Robert Malthus: John Linnell, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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