Photo: Tim Green from Bradford · CC BY 2.0No one from Denholme is on the famous people list yet
Tom Moore tops the 86 names on record in Keighley, 4 mi away. Across West Yorkshire, 90 towns list someone born there. The longest list in West Yorkshire is Leeds’, with 1,215 names. 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 Denholme’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Denholme yet.
Famous people born near Denholme
Nearby, Keighley has the most on record, with 86.
Keighley · 4 miTom Moore & 85 more
Shipley · 5 miTony Richardson & 35 moreFHBingley · 4 miFred Hoyle & 26 moreEBHaworth · 3 miEric Brown & 9 more
Thornton · 2 miCharlotte Brontë & 5 more
Oakworth · 4 miThomas Moses & 1 more
Shelf and Northowram · 5 miJoseph Jagger & 1 more
Oxenhope · 2 miHerbert ButterfieldQuestions about famous people from Denholme
Who counts as from Denholme?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Denholme’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)
- Tom Moore: British Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Richardson: Reginald Gray, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlotte Brontë: George Richmond, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Moses: Petro, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Jagger: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Herbert Butterfield: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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