Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0Lingfield Common has yet to put a famous person on the list
East Grinstead, 4 mi off, can claim 26 famous people, the best known Richard Leman. In all of Surrey, the famous people on record come from 72 towns. No town in Surrey lists more than Guildford, with 197. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Lingfield Common’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Lingfield Common yet.
Famous people born near Lingfield Common
The longest list nearby is East Grinstead’s, with 26.
Questions about famous people from Lingfield Common
Who counts as from Lingfield Common?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lingfield Common’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)
- Michael Manley: Alexander Migl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Trott: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Surtees: Skully Collins, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Vowles: Wf1fan, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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