Photo: BazzaDaRambler · CC BY 2.0Famous people born near Upper Cumberworth
A short trip away, Holmfirth (4 mi) counts 16 famous people, Jessica Gunning among them. The list for Upper Cumberworth is empty for now. 90 towns across West Yorkshire can name a famous person born there. The longest list in West Yorkshire is Leeds’, with 1,215 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Upper Cumberworth’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Upper Cumberworth yet.
Famous people born near Upper Cumberworth
The neighbour with the most names is Holmfirth, at 16.
Holmfirth · 4 miJessica Gunning & 15 more
Honley · 4 miClement Armitage & 4 more
Skelmanthorpe · 2 miJodie Whittaker & 3 more
Denby Dale · 1 miPaul Copley & 2 moreRCScholes (near Hade Edge) · 3 miRoy Castle & 2 moreJBClayton West and Scissett · 3 miJohn Battye & 1 moreTDShepley · 1 miTom Denton
Thurlstone · 4 miNicholas SaundersonQuestions about famous people from Upper Cumberworth
Who counts as from Upper Cumberworth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Upper Cumberworth’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 (5)
- Jessica Gunning: JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clement Armitage: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jodie Whittaker: Ann Wallsmith for Galaxy Con, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Copley: Mahmoud Osman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nicholas Saunderson: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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