Photo: Stephen McKay · CC BY-SA 2.0Ash Green has yet to put a famous person on the list
Coventry, 3 mi away, has 463 on its list, the best known Clive Owen. No town in Warwickshire lists more than Nuneaton, with 132. After Nuneaton, the next longest list in Warwickshire is Royal Leamington Spa’s, with 131. 44 towns in Warwickshire have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ash Green’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ash Green yet.
Famous people born near Ash Green
Around it, Coventry has the most people on record, 463 of them.
Questions about famous people from Ash Green
Who counts as from Ash Green?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ash Green’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)
- Clive Owen: Alfonso_Cuarón_y_Clive_Owen_(Children_of_men).jpg: Mario Antonio Pena Zapatería derivative work: Jan Arkesteijn, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Eliot: replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Skelton: Berit from Redhill/Surrey, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Walker: TheRealWilG, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Drayton: Sylvester Harding, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pawsey: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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