Photo: Stacey Harris · CC BY-SA 2.0Hooley has no famous person on record yet
Go 4 mi to Redhill and the list grows to 80, with Nick Hornby at the top. The Surrey lists hold names for 72 towns. The longest list in Surrey is Guildford’s, with 197 names. Epsom has the second-longest list in Surrey, after Guildford, with 180.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hooley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hooley yet.
Famous people born near Hooley
Of the towns around it, Redhill has the most on record: 80.
Redhill · 4 miNick Hornby & 79 more
Caterham · 3 miBill Nighy & 12 more
Banstead · 3 miAngus Deayton & 10 moreBPTadworth and Epsom Downs · 3 miBernard Pusey & 5 more
South Merstham · 2 miMillis Jefferis & 4 moreAABletchingley · 4 miAnthony Allom & 3 more
Kingswood · 2 miDennis Barden
Whyteleafe · 4 miFran LoganQuestions about famous people from Hooley
Who counts as from Hooley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hooley’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)
- Nick Hornby: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Nighy: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angus Deayton: Piers Allardyce, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Millis Jefferis: Unknown War Office photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dennis Barden: Valentin Hübner, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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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