South Shields (gbr)

South Shields

South Shields ranks 907th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Perugia, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and 14th arrondissement of Paris. Memorable people born in South Shields include Ridley Scott, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Eric Idle. Memorable people who died in South Shields include Stan Mortensen. South Shields has been the birth place of many soccer players, and singers and the death place of many soccer players. South Shields is located in United Kingdom.

South Shields is a coastal town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England; it is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. The town was once known in Roman times as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by the Early Middle Ages. In 2021 it had a population of 75,337. It is the fourth largest settlement in Tyne and Wear, after Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland and Gateshead. Read more on Wikipedia