Photo: Vieve Forward · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Bishopstone is on the famous people list yet
Swindon, 6 mi off, can claim 182 famous people, the best known Billie Piper. The longest list in Wiltshire is Swindon’s, with 182 names. After Swindon, the next longest list in Wiltshire is Salisbury’s, with 167. The Wiltshire lists hold names for 59 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bishopstone’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bishopstone yet.
Famous people born near Bishopstone
Nearby, Swindon has the most on record, with 182.
Swindon · 6 miBillie Piper & 181 moreWAHighworth · 6 miWilliam Joscelyn Arkell & 8 more
Wroughton · 6 miGeoffrey Cox & 8 more
Faringdon · 7 miCharles Lapworth & 7 moreTLLambourn · 6 miTed Lowe & 2 more
Wanborough · 2 miLouise Hunt & 1 more
Shrivenham and Watchfield · 3 miShute Barrington & 1 more
Stratton St Margaret · 5 miWilliam Carpenter & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Bishopstone
Who counts as from Bishopstone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bishopstone’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 (6)
- Billie Piper: Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey Cox: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Lapworth: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Louise Hunt: N1CKchooseanothername, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Shute Barrington: Contemporary portrait, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Carpenter: uncertain (attributed to Townsend Duryea but timeline does not match Carpenter's career), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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