Photo: Nigel Homer · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Cragg Vale is on the famous people list yet
Nearby, Halifax, 4 mi away, lists 306, led by Ed Sheeran. Across West Yorkshire, the lists cover 90 towns. Leeds’ 1,215 names make the longest list in West Yorkshire. After Leeds, the next longest list in West Yorkshire is Bradford’s, with 669.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cragg Vale’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cragg Vale yet.
Famous people born near Cragg Vale
Halifax has the longest list next door: 306.
Halifax · 4 miEd Sheeran & 305 more
Todmorden · 4 miJohn Cockcroft & 35 more
Littleborough · 7 miAgyness Deyn & 24 moreHMHebden Bridge · 2 miHarry Mortimer & 7 more
Elland · 6 miBill Bowes & 5 more
Mytholmroyd · 1 miTed Hughes & 4 moreASSowerby Bridge · 3 miArthur Southern & 3 moreJWRipponden · 3 miJames WaltonQuestions about famous people from Cragg Vale
Who counts as from Cragg Vale?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cragg Vale’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 (5)
- Ed Sheeran: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Cockcroft: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Agyness Deyn: Nate "Igor" Smith from Brooklyn, NY, USA - Drivenbyboredom.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bill Bowes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ted Hughes: Layle Silbert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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