Photo: Hywel Williams · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Salfords is on the famous people list yet
Redhill, 2 mi off, can claim 80 famous people, the best known Nick Hornby. Across Surrey, the lists cover 72 towns. The longest list of any town in Surrey belongs to 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 Salfords’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Salfords yet.
Famous people born near Salfords
Of the towns nearby, Redhill lists the most people: 80.
Questions about famous people from Salfords
Who counts as from Salfords?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Salfords’ 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)
- Nick Hornby: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margot Fonteyn: Hurok Concerts (U.S.), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Faye White: The original uploader was Wufong at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Millis Jefferis: Unknown War Office photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Burberry: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.