Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Whitacre Heath is on the famous people list yet
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. Of its neighbours, Coleshill, 3 mi away, lists the most: 6, Chris Dangerfield first. Famous people are on record for 44 of the towns in Warwickshire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Whitacre Heath’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Whitacre Heath yet.
Famous people born near Whitacre Heath
Coleshill leads the towns around it, with 6 names.
Questions about famous people from Whitacre Heath
Who counts as from Whitacre Heath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Whitacre Heath’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 (2)
- Chris Dangerfield: Los Angeles Aztecs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathleen Annie Gilman Jones: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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