Church of St Lawrence · Photo: Ian Rob · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Shotteswell
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Shotteswell. Alan Lloyd Hodgkin heads the list in Banbury, 3 mi away, which has 76 names. The longest list of any town in Warwickshire belongs to Nuneaton, with 132. After Nuneaton, the next longest list in Warwickshire is Royal Leamington Spa’s, with 131.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Shotteswell’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Shotteswell yet.
Famous people born near Shotteswell
Of the towns around it, Banbury has the most on record: 76.
Banbury · 3 miAlan Lloyd Hodgkin & 75 more
Bodicote · 5 miJohn C. Austin & 2 moreHCHook Norton · 9 miHood Hanway Christian & 2 more
Middleton Cheney · 5 miLancelot Holland & 1 more
Kings Sutton · 7 miWilliam Lisle Bowles & 1 moreSAByfield · 8 miStewart Adams & 1 moreJRBloxham · 6 miJohn RogersCCAdderbury and Twyford · 7 miCharles CobbQuestions about famous people from Shotteswell
Who counts as from Shotteswell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shotteswell’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
- John C. Austin: Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lancelot Holland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Lisle Bowles: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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