Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0Grendon has yet to put a famous person on the list
Of its neighbours, Tamworth, 4 mi away, lists the most: 45, Marc Albrighton first. 44 of the towns in Warwickshire list at least one person. 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.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Grendon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Grendon yet.
Famous people born near Grendon
Close by, Tamworth counts 45 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Grendon
Who counts as from Grendon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Grendon’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 (3)
- Marc Albrighton: Антон Зайцев, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Drayton: Sylvester Harding, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nehemiah Grew: "R. White", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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