Photo: Maurice Pullin · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Manton has made the famous people list yet
Douglas Hurd heads the list in Marlborough, 1 mi away, which has 36 names. No town in Wiltshire lists more than Swindon, with 182. After Swindon, the next longest list in Wiltshire is Salisbury’s, with 167. The Wiltshire lists hold names for 59 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Manton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Manton yet.
Famous people born near Manton
Marlborough leads the towns around it, with 36 names.
Hungerford · 10 miCharlie Austin & 9 more
Calne · 11 miAndy Sandell & 9 more
Wroughton · 8 miGeoffrey Cox & 8 moreJFPewsey · 5 miJim Fox & 3 moreJBRoyal Wootton Bassett · 11 miJack Barrett & 2 more
Ramsbury · 7 miEdward Meyrick & 1 more
Great Bedwyn · 7 miThomas Willis & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Manton
Who counts as from Manton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Manton’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)
- Charlie Austin: Brian Minkoff-London Pixels, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Sandell: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey Cox: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Meyrick: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Willis: Engraved by George Vertue (1684 – 1756) [2], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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