#1Famous people · Stourbridge, West Midlands
Business people stand out among the 112 famous people born in Stourbridge
At the top of the list is the English footballer Jude Bellingham, covered in 80 languages. The next two names are Johan Bellingham and Kathleen Booth. Johan Bellingham, born in 2005, is the youngest, and Martha Routh, born in 1743, the first on record. The largest group, 44, was born in the 20th century.
Born here
112
notable people
Best known
Jude Bellingham
in 80 Wikipedia languages
First
1743
Martha Routh
Youngest
2005
Johan Bellingham
Most common field
Sports
66 people
What stands out about Stourbridge’s famous people
Known worldwideJude Bellingham has an article in 80 languages, more than anyone else from here.A town of business peopleAmong the 112 people born here, 4 are business people: 1.9 times the usual share.Still making names50 were born since 1950, the youngest in 2005.112 notable peopleMore than most towns: 112 notable people were born in Stourbridge.
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Stourbridge
Languages with an article: 80 for Jude Bellingham, 37 for Johan Bellingham, 20 for Kathleen Booth.
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Science & Medicine
Kathleen Booth
1922–2022British computer scientist (1922–2022)
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Known for
What Stourbridge is known for
Business people stand out most, at 1.9 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Stourbridge’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other ten years, 13 in all.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & ArtsScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageMilitaryBusinessMusicNotableFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Stourbridge
Still to come: 109 more, from 1743 to 2001.
Henry Hill
1849–1933British born New Zealand educationalist, school inspector, mayor, geologist and botanical collector (1849-1933)
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David Parkes
1892–1975Footballer, played in The Football League during the 1910s and 1920s
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Charles Henry Crompton-Roberts
1832–1891British landowner and politician, member of the United Kingdom Parliament in 1880
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Thomas Bryan
1882–1945Recipient of the Victoria Cross, and rugby league footballer (1882-1945)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Dudley has the most people on record, 115 of them.
Dudley · 4 miDuncan Edwards & 114 more
Halesowen · 4 miMorgan Rogers & 26 more
Brierley Hill · 2 miDanny Batth & 24 moreJFKingswinford · 3 miJack Flavell & 16 moreCPCradley Heath · 3 miCharles Palmer & 13 more
Blackheath · 5 miGlenn Tipton & 3 more
Kinver · 4 miNancy Price & 2 more
Hagley · 2 miLucy CavendishQuestions about famous people from Stourbridge
Who is the most famous person from Stourbridge?
Jude Bellingham (English footballer (born 2003)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 80 languages. Next come Johan Bellingham and Kathleen Booth.
How many famous people were born in Stourbridge?
112 people born in Stourbridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 123 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Stourbridge known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 66 of the 112. That is 59% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Stourbridge?
Martha Routh, born in 1743. The youngest on the list was born in 2005.
Who counts as from Stourbridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stourbridge’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 (33)
- Jude Bellingham: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Johan Bellingham: Struway2, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Bache: Albert Wilkes, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Neal: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alf Bishop: Jcjbishop, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Annette Beveridge: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kay Davies: Dannysmiricky, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lydia Thompson: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David McDermott: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Percy Wyer: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex Nicholls: Jonesy702, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clement Lindley Wragge: Sir Harold Nicholas, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jan Pearson: Meena, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Jones: Harrias, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cat Eccles: ©House of Commons / Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Robson: Clément Bucco-Lechat, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Hill: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Peniket: Stew jones, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Austin: Lovecookie22, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Felix Baxter: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josh March: Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Parkes: Line engraving by A. W. Warren after Wageman, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Penman: Alison Newman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenton Allen: Big Talk Productions, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- The Voluntary Butler Scheme: Simon Fernandez, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Theophilus Harris Davies: credited to Public Archives of Hawaii, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dennis Elwell: Skyscript, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Duncan Edwards: ChrisTheDude, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Morgan Rogers: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Batth: Æthelred, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Glenn Tipton: Zach Petersen ( http://zach.e53.org/ ), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Price: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lucy Cavendish: George Richmond, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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