Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from The Sands is on the famous people list yet
Martin Freeman heads the list in Aldershot, 3 mi away, which has 122 names. 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 The Sands’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in The Sands yet.
Famous people born near The Sands
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Aldershot · 3 miMartin Freeman & 121 moreHMMilford and Witley · 5 miHerbert Lewis Mellersh & 3 moreJHAsh and Ash Vale · 4 miJohn Hamblin & 2 more
Farncombe · 6 miJack Phillips & 2 more
Crondall · 6 miHarold Maxwell-Lefroy & 2 moreMHElstead · 2 miMike HickmanASFarnham · 2 miAntoine Seilern
Wrecclesham · 4 miBilly BeldhamQuestions about famous people from The Sands
Who counts as from The Sands?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside The Sands’ 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)
- Martin Freeman: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Phillips: Jennie Stedman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Maxwell-Lefroy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Billy Beldham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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