Photo: Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0Burbage has no famous person on record yet
Within 6 mi, Marlborough lists the most: 36, with Douglas Hurd first. Famous people are on record for 59 of the towns in Wiltshire. No town in Wiltshire lists more than Swindon, with 182. Salisbury has the second-longest list in Wiltshire, after Swindon, with 167.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Burbage’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Burbage yet.
Famous people born near Burbage
Of the towns around it, Marlborough has the most on record: 36.
Tidworth · 8 miJames Blunt & 10 more
Hungerford · 8 miCharlie Austin & 9 moreJFPewsey · 5 miJim Fox & 3 more
Great Bedwyn · 4 miThomas Willis & 1 more
Ramsbury · 7 miEdward Meyrick & 1 moreECShipton Bellinger · 10 miEthel May Collins & 1 more
Kintbury · 10 miGeorge CherryQuestions about famous people from Burbage
Who counts as from Burbage?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Burbage’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)
- James Blunt: Teca Lamboglia from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charlie Austin: Brian Minkoff-London Pixels, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Willis: Engraved by George Vertue (1684 – 1756) [2], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Meyrick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Cherry: Artist John Hanson Walker (1844–1933), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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