Photo: Argrogan · Public domainSambourne has yet to put a famous person on the list
Within 8 mi, Bromsgrove lists the most: 62, with Mark Williams first. Famous people are on record for 44 of the towns in Warwickshire. The longest list of any town in Warwickshire belongs to Nuneaton, with 132. Royal Leamington Spa has the second-longest list in Warwickshire, after Nuneaton, with 131.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Sambourne’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sambourne yet.
Famous people born near Sambourne
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Sambourne, with how many people each has.
Bromsgrove · 8 miMark Williams & 61 more
Redditch · 3 miHarry Styles & 45 more
Alcester · 3 miFulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke & 7 more
Alvechurch · 7 miRob Elvins & 4 more
Henley-in-Arden · 6 miMat Jackson & 3 more
Barnt Green · 8 miMargaret Leighton & 3 moreRRBidford-on-Avon · 7 miReginald Robotham & 1 more
Astwood Bank · 1 miWally FreemanQuestions about famous people from Sambourne
Who counts as from Sambourne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sambourne’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 (7)
- Mark Williams: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Styles: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke: Edmund Lodge, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Elvins: https://www.flickr.com/photos/duvallrobbie2/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mat Jackson: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Leighton: Bureau of Industrial Service for CBS Television. Publicity and ad agencies were often used to distribute publicity materials in the 1950s and 1960s. Networks, studios and program sponsors handled the…, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wally Freeman: Agence Rol. Agence photographique (commanditaire), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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