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Famous people · Steeton, West Yorkshire
5 famous people call Steeton their birthplace
Arran Brindle, the cricketer, is the most widely known, written about in 6 languages. Second and third on the list are Jack Walker and Matt Revis. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. Over 21 years of births, the list goes from Chris Mason (1980) to Matt Revis (2001).
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Arran Brindle
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1980
Chris Mason
Youngest
2001
Matt Revis
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Steeton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Steeton’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1980s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Steeton
The three best known are all athletes.
#2
#3Known for
What Steeton is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is athletes, at 1.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Steeton
The other 2 span the years 1980 to 1991.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Keighley has the longest list next door: 86.
Keighley · 3 miTom Moore & 85 more
Skipton · 5 miHenry Sidgwick & 33 moreEBHaworth · 5 miEric Brown & 9 more
Silsden · 1 miDougie Lampkin & 6 moreSLCarleton-in-Craven · 5 miSusanna Lister & 2 more
Cross Hills · 1 miRichard Robson & 1 more
Oakworth · 3 miThomas Moses & 1 more
Sutton-in-Craven · 1 miBrian HargreavesQuestions about famous people from Steeton
Who is the most famous person from Steeton?
Arran Brindle (cricketer (born 1981)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Jack Walker and Matt Revis.
How many famous people were born in Steeton?
5 people born in Steeton 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 Steeton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 5. That is 80% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Steeton?
Chris Mason, born in 1980. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Steeton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Steeton’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)
- Jack Walker: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Revis: Dave Morton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Mason: Empoxford, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Moore: British Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Sidgwick: Elliott & Fry, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dougie Lampkin: Juan Fernández, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Robson: Karen Zhou, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Moses: Petro, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Hargreaves: Pauls32, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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