Oak House, The Court House and the Old School House · Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Wolverley is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Stourbridge is 6 mi away: its list has 112, led by Jude Bellingham. In all of Worcestershire, the famous people on record come from 33 towns. Worcester’s 198 names make the longest list in Worcestershire. After Worcester, the next longest list in Worcestershire is Bromsgrove’s, with 62.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Wolverley’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Wolverley yet.
Famous people born near Wolverley
The most names next door are in Stourbridge: 112.
Stourbridge · 6 miJude Bellingham & 111 more
Kidderminster · 2 miPeter Collins & 60 moreJFKingswinford · 7 miJack Flavell & 16 more
Stourport-on-Severn · 5 miRay Thomas & 11 more
Bewdley · 3 miStanley Baldwin & 10 more
Kinver · 3 miNancy Price & 2 moreASHighley · 6 miAubrey Scriven & 2 moreRMWaresley · 6 miRaymond Morris & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Wolverley
Who counts as from Wolverley?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wolverley’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
- Ray Thomas: Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.24.01.05, bestanddeelnummer 923-9509, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stanley Baldwin: Bain News Service, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nancy Price: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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