Photo: Ray Bird · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Lea: 33 in Chippenham
No famous person on record lists Lea as their birthplace yet. The longest list of any town in Wiltshire belongs to Swindon, with 182. Salisbury has the second-longest list in Wiltshire, after Swindon, with 167. In Wiltshire, 59 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Lea’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Lea as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Lea
Chippenham has the longest list next door: 33.
Chippenham · 9 miJeremy Corbyn & 32 more
Malmesbury · 2 miThomas Hobbes & 19 more
Tetbury · 6 miMark Phillips & 10 moreJBRoyal Wootton Bassett · 8 miJack Barrett & 2 moreWECricklade · 10 miWill Evans & 1 moreAMSherston · 6 miAnthony Mills
Purton · 8 miDesmond Morris
South Cerney · 9 miGrace Eleanor HadowQuestions about famous people from Lea
Who counts as from Lea?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lea’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)
- Jeremy Corbyn: Jessica Taylor, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Hobbes: John Michael Wright, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Phillips: Antonisse, Marcel / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Desmond Morris: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Grace Eleanor Hadow: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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