#1Famous people · Honley, West Yorkshire
5 famous people call Honley their birthplace
Clement Armitage, the British Army general, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. Close behind are G. W. C. Kaye and France Littlewood. More than half were born in the Victorian era, 4 in all. Births span 1863 to 1913, from France Littlewood to John Dyson.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Clement Armitage
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1863
France Littlewood
Youngest
1913
John Dyson
Most common field
Military
2 people
The best known
Born in Honley
Clement Armitage has articles in 5 languages, G. W. C. Kaye in 4 and France Littlewood in 1.
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#2Science & Medicine
G. W. C. Kaye
1880–1941English physicist (1880 - 1941)
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
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Through the years
When Honley’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1880s, with 2 people born in that decade.
MilitaryScience & MedicinePolitics & LawSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Honley is known for
Military 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 Honley
2 more, best known first.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Huddersfield has the longest list next door: 325.
Questions about famous people from Honley
Who is the most famous person from Honley?
Clement Armitage (British Army general (1881-1973)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come G. W. C. Kaye and France Littlewood.
How many famous people were born in Honley?
5 people born in Honley 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 Honley known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 4% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Honley?
France Littlewood, born in 1863. The youngest on the list was born in 1913.
Who counts as from Honley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Honley’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 (4)
- Clement Armitage: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- G. W. C. Kaye: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Wilson: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Gunning: JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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