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Photo: Shqippy · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Durrington, Wiltshire
Durrington counts 3 famous people, first among them Trevor Bannister
The best known is the British actor Trevor Bannister, with articles in 11 languages. Danny O'Dea and Pat Field follow. The list comes to 5.2 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Wiltshire, at 4.4. The neighbour with the longest list is Salisbury, 9 mi away: 167, led by Joseph Fiennes.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Trevor Bannister
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1910
Danny O'Dea
Youngest
1934
Trevor Bannister
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Durrington
Two of the three are performers.
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Known for
What Durrington is known for
Share of Durrington’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Salisbury, with 167.
Questions about famous people from Durrington
Who is the most famous person from Durrington?
Trevor Bannister (British actor (1934-2011)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 11 languages. Next come Danny O'Dea and Pat Field.
How many famous people were born in Durrington?
3 people born in Durrington have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Durrington known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Durrington?
Danny O'Dea, born in 1910. The youngest on the list was born in 1934.
Who counts as from Durrington?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Durrington’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 (3)
- Joseph Fiennes: Sila from Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Blunt: Teca Lamboglia from São Paulo, Brasil, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke: Anthony van Dyck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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