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Photo: Ian Rob · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bulkington, Warwickshire
The British footballer Joe Barratt is the one famous person from Bulkington
In 1895, the British footballer Joe Barratt was born. That places their birth in the Victorian era. Articles about them exist in 5 languages. Of its neighbours, Coventry, 6 mi away, lists the most: 463, Clive Owen first.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Joe Barratt
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1895
Joe Barratt
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Bulkington
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Coventry, with 463.
Questions about famous people from Bulkington
Who is the most famous person from Bulkington?
Joe Barratt (British footballer (1895-1968)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages.
How many famous people were born in Bulkington?
1 people born in Bulkington have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bulkington known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Bulkington?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bulkington’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
- Roger Cotes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nick Skelton: Berit from Redhill/Surrey, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Drayton: Sylvester Harding, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pawsey: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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