#1Military
Martin Frobisher
1535–1594English seaman and privateer (1535–1594)
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Famous people · Normanton, West Yorkshire
29 famous people from Normanton, many of them athletes
The best known is the English seaman and privateer Martin Frobisher, with articles in 42 languages. Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon is second and Jimmy Glazzard third. 18 of them were born in the 20th century, more than in any other period. The list comes to 13.2 for every 10,000 residents, against 5 in the typical town in West Yorkshire.
Born here
29
notable people
Best known
Martin Frobisher
in 42 Wikipedia languages
First
1535
Martin Frobisher
Youngest
1999
Ben Kilner
Most common field
Sports
24 people
What stands out about Normanton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Normanton is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Normanton
Martin Frobisher, Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon and Jimmy Glazzard are written about in 42, 8 and 7 languages.
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#2Politics & Law
Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon
1909–1993British politician (1909-1993)
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Through the years
When Normanton’s famous people were born
The 1930s top the chart, with 6 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitaryBusinessScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Normanton
The rest number 26, with 23 athletes among them.
John Scott
born 1942English former professional footballer who played as an inside forward (born 1942)
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Wakefield has the longest list next door: 293.
Questions about famous people from Normanton
Who is the most famous person from Normanton?
Martin Frobisher (English seaman and privateer (1535–1594)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 42 languages. Next come Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon and Jimmy Glazzard.
How many famous people were born in Normanton?
29 people born in Normanton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Normanton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 24 of the 29. That is 83% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Normanton?
Martin Frobisher, born in 1535. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Normanton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Normanton’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 (9)
- Martin Frobisher: Cornelis Ketel, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Crawshay: Wilson of Birmingham, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ben Kilner: Fleets, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jamie Langley: Mortonstalker, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Owen: http://picasaweb.google.com/barrau.gerard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barbara Hepworth: Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Moore: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Fleming: Rudolph Ackermann, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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