Photo: The Voice of Hassocks · CC0Famous people near Ockley: 47 in Horsham
Not one famous person on record comes from Ockley yet. No town in Surrey lists more than Guildford, with 197. Epsom has the second-longest list in Surrey, after Guildford, with 180. 72 of the towns in Surrey list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ockley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ockley yet.
Famous people born near Ockley
Horsham has the longest list next door: 47.
Horsham · 6 miJolyon Palmer & 46 more
Dorking · 6 miLaurence Olivier & 46 more
Cranleigh · 5 miG.H. Hardy & 7 more
Slinfold · 6 miAnton Dolin & 4 more
Westcott · 6 miThomas Robert Malthus & 1 moreRCRudgwick · 5 miReynell CottonJBGomshall · 6 miJanet Bewley-Cathie-Wardell-Yerburgh
Brockham · 7 miThomas BurberryQuestions about famous people from Ockley
Who counts as from Ockley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ockley’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)
- Jolyon Palmer: Morio, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Laurence Olivier: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- G.H. Hardy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anton Dolin: Kuehn, Nanette, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Robert Malthus: John Linnell, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Burberry: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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