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Frederick William Faber
1814–186319th-century British hymn writer, Catholic priest, and theologian
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Famous people · Calverley, West Yorkshire
5 famous people come from Calverley, Frederick William Faber the best known
Best known of all is Frederick William Faber, written about in 18 languages. Close behind are Charles Smith and Christopher Gott. Per head, the list is long: 12.5 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in West Yorkshire has 5. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Frederick William Faber
in 18 Wikipedia languages
First
1814
Frederick William Faber
Youngest
1974
Sally Coulthard
Most common field
Sports
2 people
What stands out about Calverley’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Calverley’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1810s than in any other decade: 1.
SportsFaithWriting & ArtsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Calverley
Ranked by languages covered: Frederick William Faber with 18, then Charles Smith with 3 and Christopher Gott with 3.
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Known for
What Calverley is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Calverley
2 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Bradford has the most on record: 669.
Bradford · 4 miEdward Victor Appleton & 668 more
Shipley · 4 miTony Richardson & 35 more
Pudsey · 2 miBenjamin Henry Latrobe & 30 moreAMBaildon · 4 miArthur Mitchell & 7 moreDWYeadon · 3 miDavid Wilman & 5 moreMTGomersal and Birkenshaw · 6 miMary Taylor & 4 more
Rawdon · 2 miBrian Close & 3 moreCHGildersome · 5 miClifford Holliday & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Calverley
Who is the most famous person from Calverley?
Frederick William Faber (19th-century British hymn writer, Catholic priest, and theologian) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 18 languages. Next come Charles Smith and Christopher Gott.
How many famous people were born in Calverley?
5 people born in Calverley have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Calverley known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Calverley?
Frederick William Faber, born in 1814. The youngest on the list was born in 1974.
Who counts as from Calverley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Calverley’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)
- Frederick William Faber: Joseph Brown, engraver, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Smith: Northmetpit, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sally Coulthard: Sally Coulthard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Victor Appleton: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Richardson: Reginald Gray, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe: Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Close: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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