Photo: David P Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Lighthorne is listed yet
A short trip away, Royal Leamington Spa (6 mi) counts 131 famous people, Aleister Crowley among them. Across Warwickshire, 44 towns list someone born there. The longest list of any town in Warwickshire belongs to Nuneaton, with 132.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Lighthorne’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Lighthorne yet.
Famous people born near Lighthorne
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Lighthorne, with how many people each has.
Royal Leamington Spa · 6 miAleister Crowley & 130 more
Warwick · 6 miJohn Richard Hicks & 53 moreEMWellesbourne · 4 miEustace Mordaunt & 2 more
Barford · 5 miJoseph Arch & 2 more
Southam · 6 miArthur Cox & 2 moreEWBishop's Tachbrook · 4 miEdmund WallerNCWhitnash · 5 miNicholas Chamberlaine
Ettington · 6 miWilliam CroftQuestions about famous people from Lighthorne
Who counts as from Lighthorne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lighthorne’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)
- Aleister Crowley: Aleister Crowley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Richard Hicks: Unknown (Associated Press), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Arch: Canadian Illustrated News, vol.VIII, no. 16, 248. Reproduced from Library and Archives Canada's website Images in the News: Canadian Illustrated News., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Cox: en:user:TuborgLight, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Croft: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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