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Photo: MaryCleary · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Water Orton, Warwickshire
2 famous people were born in Water Orton
The best known is the British film director Nicholas Pike, with articles in 7 languages. One more name completes the list: Derek W. Jones. Births span 1933 to 1955, from Derek W. Jones to Nicholas Pike. Neville Chamberlain heads the list in Birmingham, 7 mi away, which has 2,167 names.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Nicholas Pike
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1933
Derek W. Jones
Youngest
1955
Nicholas Pike
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Water Orton
DJ#2
Science & Medicine
Derek W. Jones
1933–2024Professor Emeritus of Applied Oral Science and Biomaterials
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Known for
What Water Orton is known for
Share of Water Orton’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Birmingham has the most on record: 2,167.
Questions about famous people from Water Orton
Who is the most famous person from Water Orton?
Nicholas Pike (British film director) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Derek W. Jones.
How many famous people were born in Water Orton?
2 people born in Water Orton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Water Orton known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Water Orton?
Derek W. Jones, born in 1933. The youngest on the list was born in 1955.
Who counts as from Water Orton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Water Orton’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)
- Neville Chamberlain: Lafayette Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Halford: Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Walker: TheRealWilG, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Dangerfield: Los Angeles Aztecs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Annie Gilman Jones: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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