| Q: Where was (or were) ... born? |
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| Charlemagne (now Germany's westernmost city – also died there) |
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Aachen (Aix–la–Chappelle) |
| Eddie Izzard (British colony) |
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Aden (now Yemen) |
| Paul Cezanne (city in the south of France – also died there) |
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Aix–en–Provence |
| Napoleon Bonaparte |
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Ajaccio, Corsica |
| Cleopatra (Egyptian city) |
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Alexandria |
| Robert Burns (Ayrshire village – now a suburb of Ayr) |
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Alloway |
| Jackie and Bobby Charlton, and their uncle Jackie Milburn (all England footballers); Steve Harmison and Mark Wood
(England Test cricketers) |
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Ashington (Northumberland) |
| George Formby Sr. (Lancashire market town, now in Greater Manchester) |
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Ashton–under–Lyne |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Atlanta, Georgia |
| Bubba Watson (US Masters champion in 2010 and 2014) |
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Bagdad, Florida |
| Victoria de los Ángeles, Montserrat Caballé, José Carreras (singers) –
Spanish city |
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Barcelona |
| Marlene Dietrich, Elke Sommer |
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Berlin |
| Winston Churchill (Oxfordshire stately home) |
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Blenheim Palace |
| Samuel Crompton (inventor of the spinning mule – Lancashire town, now in Greater Manchester) |
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Bolton |
| Beethoven (German city) |
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Bonn |
| Frederick Delius, David Hockney, J. B. Priestley (English city) |
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Bradford |
| Adolf Hitler (Austrian town, near the German border) |
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Braunau am Inn |
| W. G. Grace (1848), Cary Grant (1904), Damien Hirst (June 1965), J. K. Rowling (July 1965): all born
in or near |
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Bristol |
| John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy (town near Boston) |
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Brookline |
| Audrey Hepburn (European capital city) |
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Brussels |
| Edward G. Robinson (European capital city) |
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Bucharest |
| Lord Nelson (village in north Norfolk, where his father was rector) |
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Burnham Thorpe |
| James ('Jimmy') Anderson (Lancashire and England cricketer, born 1982) |
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Burnley |
| Sir Robert Peel (Lancashire town, now in Greater Manchester) |
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Bury |
| Lena Zavaroni (Scottish island) |
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Bute |
| Alan Whicker (African capital city) |
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Cairo |
| Olivia Newton–John (English city) |
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Cambridge |
| Roald Dahl; Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church, Shakin' Stevens; Ryan Giggs |
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Cardiff |
| Sir Henry Moore |
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Castleford |
| Gustav Holst (English spa town) |
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Cheltenham |
| Ben Stokes (England cricket legend) |
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Christchurch, New Zealand |
| William Wordsworth (market town, now in Cumbria); the above cricket legend grew up there from the age of 12! |
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Cockermouth |
| James Nesbitt (actor), Maggie O'Farrell (novelist) – county town of Derry/Londonderry |
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Coleraine |
| Terry Jones (of Monty Python), Paula Yates, Timothy Dalton (Welsh seaside town) |
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Colwyn Bay |
| Prince Philip (Mediterranean island) |
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Corfu |
| Andrea Amati (1505–78), his sons and his grandson Nicolò Amati (1596–1684), and
Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) – all famous early violin makers (Italian city) |
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Cremona |
| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (Baltic port) |
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Danzig (Gdańsk) gdansk |
| Lewis Carroll (Cheshire village, where his father was the parson) |
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Daresbury |
| Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (Kent town, on the Thames Estuary) |
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Dartford |
| Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (developer of the microscope), Johannes Vermeer (painter – he lived
there all his life, and died there in 1675 aged 43) – Dutch city |
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Delft |
| Joan of Arc (village in Lorraine, north–eastern France) |
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Domrémy domremy |
| Diana Rigg, Kevin Keegan, Jeremy Clarkson (Yorkshire town) |
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Doncaster |
| The Bee Gees (Barry in 1946, Robin & Maurice in 1949; family moved to Chorlton–cum–Hardy,
Manchester, in the early 1950s, and emigrated to Queensland in 1958; Andy was born in Manchester in March 1958) |
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Douglas, Isle of Man |
| Duke of Wellington (1769), Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Francis Bacon (painter, 1909–92) |
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Dublin |
| Bob Dylan (Minnesota port, the second largest city on the shores of Lake Superior – after
Thunder Bay, Ontario) |
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Duluth |
| Charles I (Scottish royal palace) |
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Dunfermline |
| Anne of Cleves (city now in Germany) |
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Dusseldorf |
| John Constable (Suffolk village) |
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East Bergholt |
| D. H. Lawrence (Nottinghamshire mining town) |
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Eastwood |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, Tony Blair (British city) |
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Edinburgh |
| Salvador Dali (town in Catalonia) |
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Figueres |
| Florence Nightingale, Dante Alighieri (Italian city) |
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Florence |
| Richard III (Northamptonshire castle, now a ruin) |
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Fotheringay |
| Louis Mountbatten (house owned by the Crown Estate, in Home Park, Windsor) |
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Frogmore House |
| Cristiano Ronaldo (Portuguese island city) |
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Funchal, Madeira |
| The Jacksons (city in Indiana, 25 miles from downtown Chicago) |
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Gary, Indiana |
| Christopher Columbus (Italian city–state) |
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Genoa |
| Bradley Wiggins (Belgian city) |
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Ghent |
| John Galliano (British Overseas Territory) |
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Gibraltar |
| Princess Margaret (Scottish castle – her mother's childhood home) |
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Glamis |
| Gordon Brown, Alex Ferguson (district of Glasgow) |
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Govan |
| Isaac Newton, Margaret Thatcher (Lincolnshire town) |
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Grantham |
| Henry VIII |
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Greenwich Palace |
| Johannes Brahms (1833) |
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Hamburg |
| Ian Botham, Jim Bowen, John Peel; Ian Astbury, front man of The Cult (town on the Wirral) |
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Heswall |
| Frank Sinatra (New Jersey city, across the Hudson River from Manhattan) |
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Hoboken |
| Barack Obama, Bruno Mars (US state capital) |
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Honolulu |
| William Wilberforce (politician, abolitionist and social reformer, 1759–1833); Tom Courtenay
(1937), Maureen Lipman (1946) – English city |
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(Kingston upon) Hull |
| Abraham Lincoln (in a small cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, near Hodgenville) |
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Kentucky |
| (Sir) Rowland Hill (originator of the penny post – industrial town in Worcestershire) |
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Kidderminster |
| Reginald Mitchell (designer of the Spitfire – former mining town near Stoke–on–Trent) |
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Kidsgrove |
| Ken Dodd (Liverpool suburb) |
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Knotty Ash |
| Alan Bennett (English city) |
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Leeds (Armley) |
| Richard Wagner (German city) |
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Leipzig |
| Rembrandt (Dutch city) |
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Leyden (Leiden) |
| Samuel Johnson, Elias Ashmole (Midland city) |
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Lichfield |
| Renoir (French departmental capital) |
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Limoges |
| Mary Queen of Scots |
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Linlithgow Palace |
| W. E. Gladstone; George Stubbs (painter); Kim Cattrall (star of Sex and the City) |
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Liverpool |
| Jerry Springer |
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London |
| Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.) |
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Louisville, Kentucky |
| Edward Elgar (small village near Worcester) |
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Lower Broadheath |
| Buddy Holly (11th largest city in Texas – pop. 252,506 in 2015) |
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Lubbock |
| Cliff Richard (Indian city, now the capital of Uttar Pradesh) |
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Lucknow |
| Rafael Nadal |
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Majorca (Manacor) |
| Pablo Picasso (Spanish city) |
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Malaga |
| David Lloyd George; J. J. Thomson (discoverer of the electron, and 1906 Nobel laureate) |
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Manchester |
| The Prophet Muhammad (founder of Islam) |
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Mecca |
| Robert the Bruce (town in the Scottish Borders) |
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Melrose |
| Captain Cook (Marton–in–Cleveland, now part of ... major English industrial town) |
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Middlesbrough |
| Ted Dexter, Frankie Dettori (Italian city) |
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Milan |
| George Leigh Mallory (Cheshire village) |
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Mobberley |
| Mo Farah (African capital city) |
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Mogadishu |
| Chris Froome (Tour de France winner 2013, 2015 and 2016) |
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Nairobi |
| Enrico Caruso (Italian city) |
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Naples |
| Louis Armstrong (Louisiana's largest city) |
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New Orleans |
| Michael Sheen |
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Newport, Monmouthshire (Gwent) |
| Donald Trump |
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New York (Queens) |
| Maxim Gorky (it was named after him from 1932 to 1990) |
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Nizhny Novgorod |
| George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans – Warwickshire's largest town) |
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Nuneaton |
| The Osmonds (Utah's 7th largest city – all except Jimmy who was born in California) |
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Ogden |
| Fred Astaire, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift (US city) |
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Omaha, Nebraska |
| Oceanus Hopkins was the only child born … (he died before 1623) |
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On the Mayflower |
| Wilfred Owen (Shropshire town) |
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Oswestry |
| Emma Watson (European capital city) |
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Paris |
| Dick Whittington (Gloucestershire village, between Gloucester and Hereford) |
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Pauntley |
| Henry VII (Welsh castle) |
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Pembroke |
| Humphry Davy (Cornish town, where a statue of him was erected in 1872) |
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Penzance |
| Galileo Galilei (Italian city) |
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Pisa |
| Andy Warhol (2nd largest city in Pennsylvania) |
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Pittsburgh |
| Tom Daley (English commercial shipping port) |
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Plymouth |
| Charles Dickens, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (major English port) |
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Portsmouth |
| John Prescott (holiday resort in Flintshire – now in Denbighshire) |
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Prestatyn |
| Charles Edward Stuart ('Bonnie Prince Charlie') – also died there, in the same building, aged 67 |
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Rome |
| Desiderius Erasmus (major Dutch port) |
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Rotterdam |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (city now in Austria) |
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Salzburg |
| Joe Biden |
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Scranton, Pennsylvania |
| Jose Mourinho (Portuguese port) |
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Setubal |
| Charles Darwin (English county town) |
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Shrewsbury |
| Muammar Gaddafi (Libyan city – also died there) |
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Sirte |
| Mother Teresa of Calcutta |
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Skopje, then in Albania |
| Benny Hill, Ken Russell, Craig David (major English seaport) |
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Southampton |
| Graeme Le Saux (footballer – 36 caps for England, 1994–2000) |
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St. Helier, Jersey |
| Matt le Tissier (footballer – 8 caps for England, 1994–7) |
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey |
| George Sanders |
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St. Petersburg |
| Edward J. Smith (Captain of the Titanic) |
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Stoke–on–Trent (Hanley) |
| Thomas Gainsborough (Suffolk market town) |
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Sudbury |
| Catherine Zeta Jones (Welsh city) |
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Swansea |
| Diana Dors (Wiltshire town) |
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Swindon |
| Francis Drake (Devonshire stannary and market town) |
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Tavistock |
| Saddam Hussein was born in Al–Awja, a small town 8 miles from |
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Tikrit |
| Agatha Christie |
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Torquay |
| Neil Kinnock (industrial town, then in Monmouthshire) |
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Tredegar |
| Isaac Pitman (English county town) |
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Trowbridge (Wiltshire) |
| Elvis Presley (7th largest city in Mississippi) |
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Tupelo |
| Albert Einstein (German city, home of the world's tallest church steeple) |
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Ulm |
| Stan Laurel (market town, now in Cumbria) |
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Ulverston |
| Antonio Vivaldi (Italian city) |
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Venice |
| Franz Schubert, Johann Strauss (I and II) – European capital city |
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Vienna |
| Yul Brynner (Siberian city) |
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Vladivistok |
| Alfred the Great (market town – historically in Berkshire, now in Oxfordshire) |
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Wantage |
| Russell Crowe |
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Wellington, New Zealand |
| Robert Shaw (Lancashire town, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester) |
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Westhoughton |
| George Formby Jr. (Lancashire town, now part of Greater Manchester) |
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Wigan |
| Guy Fawkes (English city) |
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York |
| Freddie Mercury (African island, then a British protectorate) |
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Zanzibar |
