Photo: RAY JONES · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Thorpe is on the famous people list yet
Robert Green tops the 83 names on record in Chertsey, 2 mi away. The Surrey lists hold names for 72 towns. The longest list in Surrey is Guildford’s, with 197 names. 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 Thorpe’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Thorpe as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Thorpe
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Chertsey · 2 miRobert Green & 82 more
Ashford · 4 miRuth Wilson & 37 moreHFStaines-upon-Thames · 2 miHarry Freeman & 33 moreMWEgham · 2 miMary Wesley & 13 more
Shepperton · 4 miJohn Boorman & 7 more
Addlestone · 3 miArnold Jackson & 6 moreGMOld Windsor and Wraysbury · 4 miGeraldine McEwan & 6 more
Laleham · 2 miMatthew Arnold & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Thorpe
Who counts as from Thorpe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Thorpe’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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