Photo: Mark Boyce · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person born in Wisley is listed yet
Go 4 mi to Woking and the list grows to 107, with Sarah Mullally at the top. Guildford’s 197 names make the longest list in Surrey. After Guildford, the next longest list in Surrey is Epsom’s, with 180. Across Surrey, 72 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Wisley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Wisley yet.
Famous people born near Wisley
The neighbour with the most names is Woking, at 107.
Woking · 4 miSarah Mullally & 106 moreKMCobham · 4 miKenneth McAlpine & 7 more
Addlestone · 3 miArnold Jackson & 6 more
Byfleet · 2 miTom Richardson & 5 more
Hersham · 4 miJimmy Pursey & 5 moreBHNew Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater · 2 miBob Hall & 3 more
Ripley · 2 miEric Clapton & 2 moreLSSend · 3 miLumpy Stevens & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Wisley
Who counts as from Wisley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wisley’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)
- Sarah Mullally: Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Arnold Jackson: unkonwn, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Richardson: Reinhold Thiele, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jimmy Pursey: Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eric Clapton: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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