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Famous people · Atherstone, Warwickshire
18 famous people were born in Atherstone, most of them in the 20th century
At the top of the list is the world land Speed Record holder Andy Green, covered in 17 languages. Second place goes to the English actor Leigh Lawson, third to Johnny Schofield. The list runs from Alfred Bourne, born in 1848, to Andy Green, born in 1962. For every 10,000 residents the town has 20.8, while at least half the towns in Warwickshire list nobody born there.
Born here
18
notable people
Best known
Andy Green
in 17 Wikipedia languages
First
1848
Alfred Bourne
Youngest
1962
Andy Green
Most common field
Sports
11 people
The best known
Born in Atherstone
Languages with an article: 17 for Andy Green, 8 for Leigh Lawson, 7 for Johnny Schofield.
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Sports
Johnny Schofield
1931–2006English footballer and manager (1931-2006)
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Through the years
When Atherstone’s famous people were born
The 1930s alone account for 4 of the births charted here.
SportsScience & MedicineMilitaryFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Atherstone is known for
Compared with the usual town, scientists and doctors are the most over-represented field, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Atherstone
Here are 15 more, born from 1848 to 1961.
Phoebe Sheavyn
1865–1968(1865–1968),British literary scholar and feminist
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Atherstone
Who is the most famous person from Atherstone?
Andy Green (world land Speed Record holder) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 17 languages. Next come Leigh Lawson and Johnny Schofield.
How many famous people were born in Atherstone?
18 people born in Atherstone have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 22 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Atherstone known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 11 of the 18. That is 61% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Atherstone?
Alfred Bourne, born in 1848. The youngest on the list was born in 1962.
Who counts as from Atherstone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Atherstone’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)
- Les Green: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Stanton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Eliot: replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Drayton: Sylvester Harding, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nehemiah Grew: "R. White", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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