Photo: Maigheach-gheal · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Gomeldon has made the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Salisbury is 4 mi away: its list has 167, led by Joseph Fiennes. The longest list in Wiltshire is Swindon’s, with 182 names. 59 of the towns in Wiltshire list at least one person.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gomeldon’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gomeldon yet.
Famous people born near Gomeldon
The fullest list close by belongs to Salisbury, with 167.
Salisbury · 4 miJoseph Fiennes & 166 more
Wilton · 6 miPhilip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke & 9 moreESAmesbury · 4 miEla of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury & 5 moreTBDurrington · 6 miTrevor Bannister & 2 moreGMDownton · 9 miGeorge Mannings & 2 moreECShipton Bellinger · 7 miEthel May Collins & 1 moreSJWhaddon · 5 miSydney JacobsQuestions about famous people from Gomeldon
Who counts as from Gomeldon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gomeldon’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 (2)
- Joseph Fiennes: Sila from Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke: Anthony van Dyck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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