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George Cox, Jr.
1911–1985English cricketer and footballer (1911-1985)
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Famous people · Warnham, West Sussex
3 famous people call Warnham their birthplace
Articles in 5 languages make the English cricketer and footballer George Cox, Jr. the best known. Joan Eardley is second and George Cox, Sr. third. For more famous names, Horsham is 2 mi away: its list has 47, led by Jolyon Palmer. The list runs from George Cox, Sr., born in 1873, to Joan Eardley, born in 1921.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
George Cox, Jr.
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1873
George Cox, Sr.
Youngest
1921
Joan Eardley
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Warnham
Two of the three are athletes.
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What Warnham is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 2 of them.
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
Close by, the fullest list is Horsham’s, at 47 names.
Questions about famous people from Warnham
Who is the most famous person from Warnham?
George Cox, Jr. (English cricketer and footballer (1911-1985)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Joan Eardley and George Cox, Sr..
How many famous people were born in Warnham?
3 people born in Warnham have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Warnham known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Warnham?
George Cox, Sr., born in 1873. The youngest on the list was born in 1921.
Who counts as from Warnham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Warnham’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)
- George Cox, Jr.: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Cox, Sr.: George Beldam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jolyon Palmer: Morio, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- G.H. Hardy: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Anton Dolin: Kuehn, Nanette, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Tilley: James Boyes from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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