Photo: Mike Faherty · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Pelsall
Jerome K. Jerome heads the list in Walsall, 3 mi away, which has 179 names. Not one famous person on record comes from Pelsall yet. No town in West Midlands lists more than Birmingham, with 2,167. 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 Pelsall’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Pelsall yet.
Famous people born near Pelsall
The neighbour with the most names is Walsall, at 179.
Walsall · 3 miJerome K. Jerome & 178 more
Willenhall · 4 miAllan Clarke & 23 more
Bloxwich · 2 miCharlie Athersmith & 14 more
Brownhills · 2 miErin O'Connor & 11 morePGRushall and Shelfield · 1 miPhil Gee & 10 moreSSBurntwood · 4 miStephen Sutton & 5 moreMHGreat Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay · 3 miMaurice Herriott & 3 more
Essington · 4 miRalph Sweet-EscottQuestions about famous people from Pelsall
Who counts as from Pelsall?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pelsall’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)
- Jerome K. Jerome: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Allan Clarke: lufcfilms, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Athersmith: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Erin O'Connor: The original uploader was ChrisTheDude at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ralph Sweet-Escott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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