Photo: Paora · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people born near Oxhill
Within 9 mi, Banbury lists the most: 76, with Alan Lloyd Hodgkin first. 44 towns across Warwickshire can name a famous person born there. No entry yet names Oxhill as a birthplace. The longest list in Warwickshire is Nuneaton’s, with 132 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Oxhill’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Oxhill yet.
Famous people born near Oxhill
Close by, the fullest list is Banbury’s, at 76 names.
Banbury · 9 miAlan Lloyd Hodgkin & 75 more
Stratford-upon-Avon · 9 miWilliam Shakespeare & 49 moreFHShipston-on-Stour · 5 miFrancis J. Haverfield & 5 moreEMWellesbourne · 6 miEustace Mordaunt & 2 moreHCHook Norton · 8 miHood Hanway Christian & 2 more
Ettington · 3 miWilliam Croft
Lower Quinton · 9 miRichard WhatcoatQuestions about famous people from Oxhill
Who counts as from Oxhill?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Oxhill’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)
- Alan Lloyd Hodgkin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Shakespeare: Attributed to John Taylor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Croft: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Whatcoat: Dsdugan, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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