#1Famous people · Menston, West Yorkshire
Menston counts 2 famous people, first among them Sam Riley
Articles in 39 languages make the English actor Sam Riley the best known. The other is R. Michael Roberts, the American biologist. Sam Riley, born in 1980, is the youngest, and R. Michael Roberts, born in 1940, the first on record. The nearest list is in Shipley, 4 mi away: 36 names, starting with Tony Richardson.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Sam Riley
in 39 Wikipedia languages
First
1940
R. Michael Roberts
Youngest
1980
Sam Riley
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Menston
#1RR#2
Known for
What Menston is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Shipley has the most on record, with 36.
Shipley · 4 miTony Richardson & 35 moreFHBingley · 5 miFred Hoyle & 26 more
Otley · 2 miJulian Sands & 23 more
Ilkley · 4 miGeorgie Henley & 19 moreAMBaildon · 3 miArthur Mitchell & 7 moreDWYeadon · 3 miDavid Wilman & 5 more
Calverley · 5 miFrederick William Faber & 4 more
Rawdon · 4 miBrian Close & 3 moreQuestions about famous people from Menston
Who is the most famous person from Menston?
Sam Riley (English actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 39 languages. Next come R. Michael Roberts.
How many famous people were born in Menston?
2 people born in Menston have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Menston known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Menston?
R. Michael Roberts, born in 1940. The youngest on the list was born in 1980.
Who counts as from Menston?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Menston’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)
- Sam Riley: Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Richardson: Reginald Gray, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Sands: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Georgie Henley: Khedara Ariyaratne, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick William Faber: Joseph Brown, engraver, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Close: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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