TL#1
Sports
Tony Lock
1929–1995English Test and County cricketer (1929-1995)
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Famous people · Limpsfield, Surrey
From 1813 to 1929, Limpsfield was the birthplace of 6 famous people
Articles in 6 languages make the English test and County cricketer Tony Lock the best known. Second place goes to the American activist Maud Ballington Booth, third to Alan Watt. In the Victorian era, 3 were born, the most of any period. Tony Lock was born in 1929.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Tony Lock
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1813
Henry Blair Mayne
Youngest
1929
Tony Lock
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Limpsfield
Athletes take two of the three places.
#2Politics & Law
Maud Ballington Booth
1865–1948American activist (1865-1948)
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
AW#3
Through the years
When Limpsfield’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1860s than in any other ten years, 2 in all.
SportsScience & MedicinePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Limpsfield is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 3 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Limpsfield
3 more, from 1813 to 1892.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Caterham’s, with 13.
Questions about famous people from Limpsfield
Who is the most famous person from Limpsfield?
Tony Lock (English Test and County cricketer (1929-1995)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Maud Ballington Booth and Alan Watt.
How many famous people were born in Limpsfield?
6 people born in Limpsfield have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 9 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Limpsfield known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Limpsfield?
Henry Blair Mayne, born in 1813. The youngest on the list was born in 1929.
Who counts as from Limpsfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Limpsfield’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 (8)
- Maud Ballington Booth: Gertrude Käsebier, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Nighy: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Manley: Alexander Migl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Trott: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Wolfe: Attributed to Joseph Highmore, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Douglas Chandor: Agence Rol, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Surtees: 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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