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Flag of Yorkshire Location of Yorkshire on map of the historic counties of England. This is a list of people from Yorkshire. Yorkshire is the largest historic county in both England and the United Kingdom. Some of the most notable figures from the county are:
This category contains people from localities now in Yorkshire (i.e. the ceremonial counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire) localities which were part of Yorkshire before 1974 (i.e. the historic ridings and administrative counties of the East Riding, North Riding and West Riding).
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... This is a list of notable people with a Wikipedia page associated with York, a city in North Yorkshire ...
The culture of Yorkshire has developed over the county's history, influenced by the cultures of those who came to control/settle in the region, including the Celts (Brigantes and Parisii) [citation needed], Romans, Angles, Vikings, Normans and British Afro-Caribbean [citation needed] peoples (Windrush generation communities), from the 1950s onwards.
In East Yorkshire a new burial rite in which the dead were buried within square ditched barrows, and sometimes accompanied by grave goods including carts or chariots, appears from about 500 BC. This is the Arras culture of the Parisii tribe. [19] Before their invasion the Romans identified three different tribes of people living in the ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... Yorkshire Museum people (38 P) Pages in category "People from York"
People from the East Riding of Yorkshire (before 1974) (6 C, 9 P) Councillors in the East Riding of Yorkshire (2 C, 12 P) People by district in the East Riding of Yorkshire (2 C)
Yorkshire people have their own Yorkshire dialects and accents and are, or rather were, known as Broad Yorkshire or Tykes, with its roots in Old English and Old Norse. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] The British Library provides a four minute long voice recording made in 1955, by a "female housekeeper", Miss Madge Dibnahon, on its web site and an example of ...