Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Coxley
No famous person on record lists Coxley as their birthplace yet. Of its neighbours, Wakefield, 4 mi away, lists the most: 293, Barbara Hepworth first. Famous people are on record for 90 of the towns in West Yorkshire. The longest list in West Yorkshire is Leeds’, with 1,215 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Coxley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Coxley yet.
Famous people born near Coxley
Wakefield has the longest list next door: 293.
Wakefield · 4 miBarbara Hepworth & 292 more
Dewsbury · 3 miOwen Willans Richardson & 154 more
Ossett · 2 miColin Sturgess & 12 moreSBHorbury · 1 miStan Barstow & 4 moreRCMiddlestown and Overton · 1 miRodney Cass & 1 moreMGCrigglestone and Durkar · 2 miMalcolm Graham & 1 moreJBClayton West and Scissett · 4 miJohn Battye & 1 moreAWEmley · 3 miAlan WalkerQuestions about famous people from Coxley
Who counts as from Coxley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Coxley’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 (3)
- Barbara Hepworth: Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Owen Willans Richardson: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Sturgess: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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