Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Armscote is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Stratford-upon-Avon is 7 mi away: its list has 50, led by William Shakespeare. Across Warwickshire, the lists cover 44 towns. The longest list of any town in Warwickshire belongs to Nuneaton, with 132. After Nuneaton, the next longest list in Warwickshire is Royal Leamington Spa’s, with 131.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Armscote’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Armscote yet.
Famous people born near Armscote
Stratford-upon-Avon has the longest list next door: 50.
Stratford-upon-Avon · 7 miWilliam Shakespeare & 49 moreFHShipston-on-Stour · 3 miFrancis J. Haverfield & 5 more
Mickleton · 5 miRichard Graves & 3 more
Chipping Campden · 7 miMatthew Gotrel & 3 moreEMWellesbourne · 7 miEustace Mordaunt & 2 more
Ettington · 3 miWilliam Croft
Lower Quinton · 4 miRichard Whatcoat
Blockley · 8 miCecil SandfordQuestions about famous people from Armscote
Who counts as from Armscote?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Armscote’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 (6)
- William Shakespeare: Attributed to John Taylor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Graves: James Northcote, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Gotrel: Gregor Rom, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Croft: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Whatcoat: Dsdugan, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Sandford: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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