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Famous people · Upper Beeding, West Sussex
Upper Beeding’s famous people span 129 years: 4 births from 1835 to 1964
At the top of the list is the British parasitoloigst Ralph Lainson, covered in 3 languages. Walter Potter and Ken Travers follow. The list’s best known name, Ralph Lainson, dates from 1927. For every 10,000 residents there are 12.9 on the list, well above the typical West Sussex town’s 3.7.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Ralph Lainson
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1835
Walter Potter
Youngest
1964
Sonia McGeorge
The best known
Born in Upper Beeding
Ranked by languages covered: Ralph Lainson with 3, then Walter Potter with 3 and Ken Travers with 1.
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#3Through the years
When Upper Beeding’s famous people were born
3 were born in the 20th century, and the 1960s alone saw 2.
NotablePolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Upper Beeding is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Upper Beeding
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Worthing: 103.
Worthing · 6 miGwendoline Christie & 102 more
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Steyning · 1 miMaisie Peters & 19 more
Southwick · 4 miJohn Pell & 8 moreTWLancing and Sompting · 4 miTed Walker & 6 moreHPHenfield · 4 miHenry Phillips & 4 moreEHStorrington · 7 miErnest Hammond & 3 more
Hassocks and Hurstpierpoint · 7 miPatrick Hamilton & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Upper Beeding
Who is the most famous person from Upper Beeding?
Ralph Lainson (British parasitoloigst (1927–2015)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Walter Potter and Ken Travers.
How many famous people were born in Upper Beeding?
4 people born in Upper Beeding have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Upper Beeding?
Walter Potter, born in 1835. The youngest on the list was born in 1964.
Who counts as from Upper Beeding?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Upper Beeding’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 (7)
- Walter Potter: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ken Travers: CPSU/CSA (Flickr user cpsucsa), CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gwendoline Christie: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leo Sayer: Allrightnow1970, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maisie Peters: Justin Higuchi, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Pell: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Hamilton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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