Photo: Richard Law · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Pheasey yet, but Walsall next door has 179
Famous people are on record for 29 of the towns in West Midlands. The longest list of any town in West Midlands belongs to Birmingham, with 2,167. After Birmingham, the next longest list in West Midlands is Coventry’s, with 463. The best known born in Walsall is Jerome K. Jerome.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Pheasey’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Pheasey yet.
Famous people born near Pheasey
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Pheasey, with how many people each has.
Walsall · 3 miJerome K. Jerome & 178 more
Royal Sutton Coldfield · 3 miRob Halford & 127 more
Smethwick · 5 miRichard Swinburne & 70 moreGCWednesbury · 4 miGarry Cook & 61 moreBADarlaston · 5 miBill Arblaster & 16 more
Bloxwich · 6 miCharlie Athersmith & 14 morePGRushall and Shelfield · 4 miPhil Gee & 10 more
West Bromwich · 4 miAaron Ramsey & 8 moreQuestions about famous people from Pheasey
Who counts as from Pheasey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pheasey’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
- Rob Halford: Birgit Fostervold, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Swinburne: Andrzej Zet, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Athersmith: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Ramsey: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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