Photo: Mari Buckley · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Ashton has made the famous people list yet
Just 8 mi away, Camborne’s list holds 21 names, Arthur Woolf the best known. No town in Cornwall lists more than Truro, with 116. After Truro, the next longest list in Cornwall is Penzance’s, with 69. 69 towns in Cornwall have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ashton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ashton yet.
Famous people born near Ashton
Camborne has the longest list next door: 21.
Questions about famous people from Ashton
Who counts as from Ashton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ashton’s built-up area (the ONS 2022 boundary), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a bigger area (“London”), another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). Birthplaces are placed in the town by the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary (Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0). Ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across UK towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (5)
- Bob Fitzsimmons: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rick Rescorla: US Army, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Davies Gilbert: Painting by Henry Howard RA (31 January 1769 – 5 October 1847); Engraved by John Thompson (25 May 1785–20 February 1866), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Andrew George: ©House of Commons / photography by Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Cole: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793-1872), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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