Photo: Ian S · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Kirkhamgate
A short trip away, Wakefield (2 mi) counts 293 famous people, Barbara Hepworth among them. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Kirkhamgate. The longest list of any town in West Yorkshire belongs to Leeds, with 1,215. 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 Kirkhamgate’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Kirkhamgate yet.
Famous people born near Kirkhamgate
The most names next door are in Wakefield: 293.
Wakefield · 2 miBarbara Hepworth & 292 more
Dewsbury · 3 miOwen Willans Richardson & 154 more
Batley · 4 miJoseph Priestley & 33 more
Morley · 4 miH. H. Asquith & 26 more
Ossett · 2 miColin Sturgess & 12 moreSBHorbury · 3 miStan Barstow & 4 more
East Ardsley · 2 miKenneth Murray & 2 moreMGCrigglestone and Durkar · 4 miMalcolm Graham & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Kirkhamgate
Who counts as from Kirkhamgate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Kirkhamgate’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)
- Barbara Hepworth: Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Owen Willans Richardson: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Priestley: Ellen Sharples, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- H. H. Asquith: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Sturgess: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kenneth Murray: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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