Photo: Jim Woodward-Nutt · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Outwood, Redhill lists 80 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Outwood is on record yet. Guildford’s 197 names make the longest list in Surrey. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180. Famous people are on record for 72 of the towns in Surrey.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Outwood’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Outwood yet.
Famous people born near Outwood
Around it, Redhill has the most people on record, 80 of them.
Questions about famous people from Outwood
Who counts as from Outwood?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Outwood’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)
- Nick Hornby: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Faye White: The original uploader was Wufong at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Surtees: Skully Collins, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Vowles: Wf1fan, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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