#1Famous people · Old Arley, Warwickshire
Nigel Winterburn tops a list of 2 famous people born in Old Arley
Articles in 25 languages make the English footballer Nigel Winterburn the best known. The list has one more: the cricketer Albert Wright. For more famous names, Nuneaton is 4 mi away: its list has 132, led by George Eliot. Over 22 years of births, the list goes from Albert Wright (1941) to Nigel Winterburn (1963).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Nigel Winterburn
in 25 Wikipedia languages
First
1941
Albert Wright
Youngest
1963
Nigel Winterburn
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Old Arley
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Nuneaton’s, at 132 names.
Questions about famous people from Old Arley
Who is the most famous person from Old Arley?
Nigel Winterburn (English footballer (born 1963)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 25 languages. Next come Albert Wright.
How many famous people were born in Old Arley?
2 people born in Old Arley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Old Arley known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Old Arley?
Albert Wright, born in 1941. The youngest on the list was born in 1963.
Who counts as from Old Arley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Old Arley’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)
- Nigel Winterburn: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Eliot: replica by François D’Albert Durade (1804–1886), 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
- Nehemiah Grew: "R. White", Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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