Photo: David Martin · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Dickens Heath: 2,167 in Birmingham
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Dickens Heath. In West Midlands, 29 towns have someone on the list. Birmingham’s 2,167 names make the longest list in West Midlands. After Birmingham, the next longest list in West Midlands is Coventry’s, with 463.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Dickens Heath’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Dickens Heath yet.
Famous people born near Dickens Heath
Of the towns nearby, Birmingham lists the most people: 2,167.
Questions about famous people from Dickens Heath
Who counts as from Dickens Heath?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dickens 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 (5)
- Neville Chamberlain: Lafayette Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Potter: jamesboyes, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rob Elvins: https://www.flickr.com/photos/duvallrobbie2/, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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
- John Wyndham: Stellar Publishing / unidentified staff artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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