Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Blakedown
Jude Bellingham tops the 112 names on record in Stourbridge, 4 mi away. The longest list in Worcestershire is Worcester’s, with 198 names. After Worcester, the next longest list in Worcestershire is Bromsgrove’s, with 62. Famous people are on record for 33 of the towns in Worcestershire.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Blakedown’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Blakedown yet.
Famous people born near Blakedown
The longest list nearby is Stourbridge’s, with 112.
Stourbridge · 4 miJude Bellingham & 111 more
Kidderminster · 3 miPeter Collins & 60 more
Brierley Hill · 5 miDanny Batth & 24 moreJFKingswinford · 6 miJack Flavell & 16 more
Bewdley · 6 miStanley Baldwin & 10 more
Kinver · 4 miNancy Price & 2 moreRMWaresley · 5 miRaymond Morris & 1 moreRHCatshill · 6 miRoy Hartle & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Blakedown
Who counts as from Blakedown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Blakedown’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)
- Jude Bellingham: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Peter Collins: Jitesh Jagadish from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Danny Batth: Æthelred, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stanley Baldwin: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Price: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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