Photo: Alan Hunt · CC BY-SA 2.0Penton Hook has no famous person on record yet
Go 1 mi to Chertsey and the list grows to 83, with Robert Green at the top. 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 Penton Hook’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Penton Hook yet.
Famous people born near Penton Hook
Close by, the fullest list is Chertsey’s, at 83 names.
Questions about famous people from Penton Hook
Who counts as from Penton Hook?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Penton Hook’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 (5)
- Robert Green: Paul Blank, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Ruth Wilson: Mingle MediaTV, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Boorman: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arnold Jackson: unkonwn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Arnold: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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