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Photo: Trish Steel · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Whaddon, Wiltshire
The New Zealand cricketer Sydney Jacobs is the one famous person from Whaddon
Sydney Jacobs, the New Zealand cricketer, was born in 1867. That places their birth in the Victorian era. Readers can find them written up in 2 languages. Nearby, Salisbury, 4 mi away, lists 167, led by Joseph Fiennes.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Sydney Jacobs
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1867
Sydney Jacobs
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Whaddon
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Salisbury counts 167 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Whaddon
Who is the most famous person from Whaddon?
Sydney Jacobs (New Zealand cricketer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Whaddon?
1 people born in Whaddon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Whaddon known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Whaddon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Whaddon’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
- Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke: Anthony van Dyck, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Jefferis: Phil4 at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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