Photo: Karen Roe · CC BY 2.0No famous person from Long Compton yet, but Chipping Norton next door has 21
The Warwickshire lists hold names for 44 towns. The longest list in Warwickshire is Nuneaton’s, with 132 names. Royal Leamington Spa has the second-longest list in Warwickshire, after Nuneaton, with 131. The best known born in Chipping Norton is Wentworth Miller.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Long Compton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Long Compton yet.
Famous people born near Long Compton
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Chipping Norton · 4 miWentworth Miller & 20 moreGGMoreton-in-Marsh · 5 miGabrielle Glaister & 7 moreFHShipston-on-Stour · 5 miFrancis J. Haverfield & 5 more
Stow-on-the-Wold · 7 miFrederic Bartlett & 4 moreLKCharlbury · 9 miLarcum Kendall & 4 more
Chipping Campden · 10 miMatthew Gotrel & 3 moreHCHook Norton · 4 miHood Hanway Christian & 2 more
Blockley · 8 miCecil SandfordQuestions about famous people from Long Compton
Who counts as from Long Compton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Long Compton’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)
- Wentworth Miller: Andrew Horovitz, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederic Bartlett: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Gotrel: Gregor Rom, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cecil Sandford: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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