Hot notables in YOUR area

[bgmnts]

https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

Thought this was a cool little map of the most notable people of each nation/region/town, sourced from a scientific data article (that collected data from Wikipedia and Wikidata). Unsure if it's the nature of the source, but somehow Adam Smith is the most notable person in Britain.

Who's the most famous people from your area? Mine is sadly Danny Gabbidon but I feel Arthur Machen is close enough for me to claim him.

[Norton Canes]

It's got Leonora Carrington for us and she was actually born thirty miles away in Chorley, so... 

[Alberon]

Got Anne Beauchamp, the 16th Countess of Warwick



Whoorrrr! Amiright?!?

Also, Kate Winslet and the currently missing Princess of Wales.

EDIT: I note that the website doesn't include Ricky Gervais who was born here. Good.

[bgmnts]

Got Anne Beauchamp, the 16th Countess of Warwick

The dirty teatowel draped over the taco shell resting on her ear is an interesting fashion choice.

[Icehaven]

Closest to where I'm from is an actor called A. Bromley Davenport, but he was actually born a few miles from where I grew up, and has been dead since 1946. He was in 77 films and I've never seen or heard of any of them except Jamaica Inn (1939).

[lauraxsynthesis]

The one per "geographical location" thing doesn't seem to be working in Greenwich which has Elizabeth I, Vanessa Redgrave and Arthur Locker who I've never heard of. I find it hard to believe there's no one more notable than Steve Harley who's Deptford-born, but I can't think of anyone else at the moment. No one at all here in New Cross, which can't be right but I can't be arsed to fish out my local history book. I hadn't known Ben Elton was from Catford yay. I do love nerding over maps.

They need to sort out Kae Tempest's deadname.

[Mr Trumpet]

Yeah it's Ben Elton here in Catford. My home town has Henry III which is fair enough I suppose.

Obviously I thought this was going to be about those ads that say HOT POLISH GRANNIES WANT TO MEET YOU IN [town in the next county]. Or is it just me that gets those?

[baptist]

Max Boyce - probably alive.

[JesusAndYourBush]

I don't get any maps, I get an image of the sun surrounded by purple girders. Inside of a dyson sphere??

[studpuppet]

Need more data - is it people who were born there? Or people associated with, or lived there?

If it's the latter, it means the Potters Bar area had a choice of:
- Shane 'voice of Scott Tracey and UFO' Rimmer
- Acker Bilk
- Lee from Peters & Lee

While Cheshunt could have had:
- Cliff Richard
- Colin 'Lotus' Chapman
- Rowland 'Postage Stamp' Hill
- Richard 'Third Lord Protector that no one remembers' Cromwell


If it's the former, Cheshunt could have chosen Peters from Peters & Lee or Declan McKenna, and Potters Bar had Vogue from Gladiators.

[non capisco]

Penge appears to have a grand total of NO NOTABLE CUNT.

Where I grew up in Kent has 'Arthur Wellard' which I'm choosing to believe is the full name of the dog from Eastenders.

[bgmnts]

Need more data - is it people who were born there? Or people associated with, or lived there?

It's done by birthplace.

[ros vulgaris]

It thinks someone who played 20 games for Stoke in the 1920s is more famous than Jordan Henderson or Jill Scott.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

Dreamboat Liam Payne.

[dontpaintyourteeth]

smug bloke from franz ferdinand

[Jerzy Bondov]

This led me to find out someone from my year at school went on to be an actual professional footballer despite my cynicism that any of the roughly 500 boys in my year who wanted to be actual professional footballers would ever manage it.

[Fambo Number Mive]

I don't seem to be able to zoom in. Do I need a mouse?

[bgmnts]

I don't seem to be able to zoom in. Do I need a mouse?

I used it on my phone do I'm unsure, but it does seem to be a little fussy at scrolling and zooming.

[Poobum]

Rebecca Adlington. No Tom Scott though who I'd say is a bit more notable. Lord Byron is buried nearby but born in that there London apparently.

[Cleveland Steamer]

Have you got a GIANT FUCKING GODBER???



NO I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE

[QDRPHNC]

Glenn Gould used to live in my neighbourhood and he's not on the map so make of that what you will.

[Psybro]

Then - Rupert Grint
Now - Michael Palin

[JesusAndYourBush]

I don't get any maps, I get an image of the sun surrounded by purple girders. Inside of a dyson sphere??

And now I'm on my desktop the 'sun' finally coloured in and became the Earth in space, but I can't zoom in or do anything with it.

[ros vulgaris]

Sunderland should have had Bede (sources are mixed between here and Jarrow but he was definitely schooled at Monkwearmouth), James Herriot (left early but was always a fan of the football club), Kate Adie (born in Whitley Bay but we've always claimed her), Raich Carter, James Bolam, Terry Deary and Lauren Laverne.

[dissolute ocelot]

Sean Connery for Edinburgh. Is he more famous than Alexander Graham Bell, Arthur Conan Doyle, David Hume, Tony BLIAR, or King James VI and I, who has a Bible named after him?

Still, could be worse: Dalgety Bay, a town of 10,000 people just across the Firth of Forth has

Liam Smith (born 10 April 1996) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a right-back for Grimsby Town on loan from Cheltenham Town.

And Glasgow's is Mark Knopfler, who I never knew was born in Scotland (moved to Blyth aged 7). Most notable Frenchie is Jules Verne!

Technically it seems a bit wobbly: it seems to switch back and forth between Brian Cox and Ian McDiarmid as you zoom in on Dundee. (The latter is from Carnoustie, basically Dundee's golf course.)

[monkfromhavana]

Nick Skelton, who I think needs no introduction.

[Pimhole]

Paul McCartney is not on this, but Will Sergeant is. Get in bin.

[ros vulgaris]

Lord Byron is buried nearby but born in that there London apparently.

He married at Seaham Hall here. It predictably didn't last long but it produced Ada Lovelace.

[Jerzy Bondov]

I'm using this to doxx you all

[Blumf]

Apparently, Lenny Henry isn't notable, but Mark Speight is?