#1Famous people · Streetly, West Midlands
3 famous people were born in Streetly
The best known is the British middle-distance runner Diane Leather, with articles in 11 languages. The British composer Janet Beat ranks second, ahead of Graham Crabb. Graham Crabb, born in 1964, is the youngest, and Diane Leather, born in 1933, the first on record. Go 4 mi to Walsall and the list grows to 179, with Jerome K. Jerome at the top.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Diane Leather
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1933
Diane Leather
Youngest
1964
Graham Crabb
Most common field
Music
2 people
The best known
Born in Streetly
Musicians take two of the three places.
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Known for
What Streetly is known for
2 of them work in Music, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Walsall, at 179.
Questions about famous people from Streetly
Who is the most famous person from Streetly?
Diane Leather (British middle-distance runner) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 11 languages. Next come Janet Beat and Graham Crabb.
How many famous people were born in Streetly?
3 people born in Streetly have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Streetly known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 5% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Streetly?
Diane Leather, born in 1933. The youngest on the list was born in 1964.
Who counts as from Streetly?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Streetly’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 (6)
- Diane Leather: Victuallers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- 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
- Charlie Athersmith: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Erin O'Connor: The original uploader was ChrisTheDude at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Ramsey: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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