Dewsbury
Dewsbury ranks 3,281st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Juvisy-sur-Orge, Sanjō, Niigata, and Bergen op Zoom. Memorable people born in Dewsbury include Owen Willans Richardson, Tom Kilburn, and Alistair Brownlee. Dewsbury has been the birth place of many physicists and engineers. 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
Between 1879 and 1988, Dewsbury was the birth place of 4 globally memorable people, including Owen Willans Richardson, Tom Kilburn, and Alistair Brownlee.
People Born in Dewsbury
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Owen Willans Richardson
1879 - 1959
HPI: 69.23
Rank: 1
Tom Kilburn
1921 - 2001
HPI: 38.34
Rank: 2
Alistair Brownlee
1988 - Present
HPI: 28.87
Rank: 3
Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi
1971 - Present
HPI: 23.29
Rank: 4
Newly Added People Born in Dewsbury
Go to all RankingsMost individuals born in present day Dewsbury were physicists (1), engineers (1), athletes (1), and politicians (1), while most who died were .
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 2 globally memorable people born in Dewsbury since 1700.
