Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Shrewley
The nearest list is in Warwick, 5 mi away: 54 names, starting with John Richard Hicks. Nuneaton has the most of any town in Warwickshire: 132. After Nuneaton, the next longest list in Warwickshire is Royal Leamington Spa’s, with 131. Not one famous person on record comes from Shrewley yet.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Shrewley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Shrewley yet.
Famous people born near Shrewley
7 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Shrewley
Who counts as from Shrewley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shrewley’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)
- John Richard Hicks: Unknown (Associated Press), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Flowers: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mat Jackson: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Arch: Canadian Illustrated News, vol.VIII, no. 16, 248. Reproduced from Library and Archives Canada's website Images in the News: Canadian Illustrated News., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wyndham: Stellar Publishing / unidentified staff artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wootton: Gawen Hamilton (died 1737), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Buxton Winnicott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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