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Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Send, Surrey
3 famous people were born in Send from 1735 to 1918
Articles in 3 languages make the English cricketer Lumpy Stevens the best known. The next two names are William Leese and Charles Letts. Guildford, 4 mi off, can claim 197 famous people, the best known Lily Collins. The list’s best known name, Lumpy Stevens, dates from 1735.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Lumpy Stevens
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1735
Lumpy Stevens
Youngest
1918
Charles Letts
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Send
First, Lumpy Stevens (3 languages), then William Leese (2) and Charles Letts (1).
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Known for
What Send is known for
Share of Send’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Guildford has the most on record: 197.
Questions about famous people from Send
Who is the most famous person from Send?
Lumpy Stevens (English cricketer (1735-1819)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come William Leese and Charles Letts.
How many famous people were born in Send?
3 people born in Send have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Send known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Send?
Lumpy Stevens, born in 1735. The youngest on the list was born in 1918.
Who counts as from Send?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Send’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)
- Lily Collins: Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Mullally: Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Richardson: Reinhold Thiele, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Clapton: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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