#1Famous people · Box, Wiltshire
Box counts 5 famous people, first among them Jack MacBryan
The best known is the English cricketer Jack MacBryan, with articles in 14 languages. Behind the leader come Ernest Butler and Arthur Bradfield. The largest group, 3, was born in the Victorian era. Ernest Butler, born in 1919, is the youngest, and William Pinker, born in 1847, the first on record.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Jack MacBryan
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1847
William Pinker
Youngest
1919
Ernest Butler
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Box
Jack MacBryan has articles in 14 languages, Ernest Butler in 8 and Arthur Bradfield in 3.
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Through the years
When Box’s famous people were born
The 1890s saw the most births of any decade: 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Box is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 3.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in Box
2 more names, born between 1847 and 1907.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 7 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Box
Who is the most famous person from Box?
Jack MacBryan (English cricketer (1892-1983)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 14 languages. Next come Ernest Butler and Arthur Bradfield.
How many famous people were born in Box?
5 people born in Box have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Box known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 5. That is 60% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Box?
William Pinker, born in 1847. The youngest on the list was born in 1919.
Who counts as from Box?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Box’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)
- Jack MacBryan: unknown employee of "Sports and General" photography agency, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tyrone Mings: DavidPMaynard, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Shrapnel: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Felix Aylmer: Allan warren, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Montague Harper: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Grocyn: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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