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Famous people · Yeadon, West Yorkshire
6 famous people call Yeadon their birthplace
The best known is the British field hockey player David Wilman, with articles in 4 languages. Amos Marshall, the English county cricketer, comes second, with Fred Smith third. From Amos Marshall in 1849 to Bryan Stott in 1934, the births cover 85 years. The list comes to 4.2 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in West Yorkshire, at 5.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
David Wilman
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1849
Amos Marshall
Youngest
1934
Bryan Stott
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Yeadon
All three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Yeadon’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1930s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsFaithWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Yeadon is known for
Athletes stand out most, at 1.4 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Yeadon
The other 3 span the years 1878 to 1934.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Bradford has the most on record: 669.
Bradford · 6 miEdward Victor Appleton & 668 more
Shipley · 4 miTony Richardson & 35 more
Pudsey · 5 miBenjamin Henry Latrobe & 30 more
Otley · 3 miJulian Sands & 23 moreAMBaildon · 4 miArthur Mitchell & 7 more
Calverley · 3 miFrederick William Faber & 4 more
Rawdon · 1 miBrian Close & 3 moreWBBurley in Wharfedale · 4 miWalter Burley & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Yeadon
Who is the most famous person from Yeadon?
David Wilman (British field hockey player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Amos Marshall and Fred Smith.
How many famous people were born in Yeadon?
6 people born in Yeadon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Yeadon known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Yeadon?
Amos Marshall, born in 1849. The youngest on the list was born in 1934.
Who counts as from Yeadon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yeadon’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 (7)
- Moses Ayrton: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Victor Appleton: Nobel foundation, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tony Richardson: Reginald Gray, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Benjamin Henry Latrobe: Charles Willson Peale, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Julian Sands: 5of7, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick William Faber: Joseph Brown, engraver, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Close: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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