War memorial outside St Giles' Church, Rowley Regis · Photo: AtticTapestry · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Rowley Regis yet, but Dudley next door has 115
The longest list in West Midlands is Birmingham’s, with 2,167 names. Coventry has the second-longest list in West Midlands, after Birmingham, with 463. In all of West Midlands, the famous people on record come from 29 towns. The best known born in Dudley is Duncan Edwards.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Rowley Regis’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Rowley Regis yet.
Famous people born near Rowley Regis
8 towns around it have someone on record.
Dudley · 2 miDuncan Edwards & 114 more
Smethwick · 3 miRichard Swinburne & 70 moreGCWednesbury · 4 miGarry Cook & 61 more
Tipton · 2 miMargaret MacDonald & 39 more
Oldbury · 2 miJack Judge & 28 more
Halesowen · 3 miMorgan Rogers & 26 more
Brierley Hill · 4 miDanny Batth & 24 more
Sedgley · 4 miBrian Berry & 17 moreQuestions about famous people from Rowley Regis
Who counts as from Rowley Regis?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rowley Regis’ 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 (7)
- Duncan Edwards: ChrisTheDude, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Swinburne: Andrzej Zet, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret MacDonald: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jack Judge: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Morgan Rogers: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Batth: Æthelred, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Berry: Ybargal, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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