#1Famous people · Coleshill, Warwickshire
Coleshill’s famous people span 138 years: 6 births from 1819 to 1957
Chris Dangerfield, the English footballer, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. 3 of them were born in the 20th century, more than in any other period. The list’s best known name, Chris Dangerfield, dates from 1955. Half or more of the towns in Warwickshire have no one on record, but this one has 8.9 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Chris Dangerfield
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1819
John Henry Wynne
Youngest
1957
Lloyd Maitland
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Coleshill
The three best known are all athletes.
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Through the years
When Coleshill’s famous people were born
The 1950s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
SportsFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Coleshill is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.4 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Coleshill
3 more, from 1819 to 1872.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Coleshill, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Coleshill
Who is the most famous person from Coleshill?
Chris Dangerfield (English footballer (born 1955)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Lloyd Maitland and Tim Rawlings.
How many famous people were born in Coleshill?
6 people born in Coleshill have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Coleshill known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Coleshill?
John Henry Wynne, born in 1819. The youngest on the list was born in 1957.
Who counts as from Coleshill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Coleshill’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 (4)
- Chris Dangerfield: Los Angeles Aztecs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Potter: jamesboyes, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Halford: Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Walker: TheRealWilG, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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