Dewsbury
Dewsbury ranks 3,575th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Château de Saint-Cloud, East Harlem, and Annemasse. Memorable people born in Dewsbury include Owen Willans Richardson, Betty Boothroyd, and Tom Kilburn. Dewsbury has been the birth place of many politicians, and physicists. Dewsbury is located in United Kingdom.
Dewsbury is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town, Dewsbury went through a period of decline. Dewsbury forms part of the Heavy Woollen District of which it is the largest town. The population of the built-up area was 63,722 at the 2021 Census. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1879 and 1988, Dewsbury was the birth place of 5 globally memorable people, including Owen Willans Richardson, Betty Boothroyd, and Tom Kilburn.
People Born in Dewsbury
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Owen Willans Richardson
PHYSICIST
1879 - 1959
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 1
Betty Boothroyd
POLITICIAN
1929 - 2023
HPI: 39.56
Rank: 2
Tom Kilburn
ENGINEER
1921 - 2001
HPI: 39.33
Rank: 3
Alistair Brownlee
ATHLETE
1988 - Present
HPI: 29.81
Rank: 4
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
POLITICIAN
1971 - Present
HPI: 25.43
Rank: 5
Newly Added People Born in Dewsbury
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Most individuals born in present day Dewsbury were politicians (2), physicists (1), engineers (1), and athletes (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Dewsbury, including Betty Boothroyd, and Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi. Whereas, throughout history, politicians have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Dewsbury, including Betty Boothroyd, and Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Dewsbury since 1700.
