Photo: Betty Longbottom · CC BY-SA 2.0Upperthong has yet to put a famous person on the list
Huddersfield, 6 mi away, has 325 on its list, the best known Harold Wilson. No town in West Yorkshire lists more than Leeds, with 1,215. After Leeds, the next longest list in West Yorkshire is Bradford’s, with 669. The West Yorkshire lists hold names for 90 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Upperthong’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Upperthong yet.
Famous people born near Upperthong
Huddersfield leads the towns around it, with 325 names.
Huddersfield · 6 miHarold Wilson & 324 more
Holmfirth · 1 miJessica Gunning & 15 more
Marsden · 5 miDora Marsden & 5 more
Honley · 2 miClement Armitage & 4 moreRCScholes (near Hade Edge) · 2 miRoy Castle & 2 moreGDLinthwaite and Slaithwaite · 4 miGeoff Dyson & 2 moreDHMeltham · 2 miDavid HirstTDShepley · 4 miTom DentonQuestions about famous people from Upperthong
Who counts as from Upperthong?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Upperthong’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 (4)
- Harold Wilson: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jessica Gunning: JaceMerlyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dora Marsden: G. C. Beresford, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clement Armitage: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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