Photo: Dsgreat3 · CC BY-SA 3.0No one from Boscastle is on the famous people list yet
Just 4 mi away, Camelford’s list holds 4 names, Liane Collot d’Herbois the best known. Famous people are on record for 69 of the towns in Cornwall. Truro has the most of any town in Cornwall: 116. After Truro, the next longest list in Cornwall is Penzance’s, with 69.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Boscastle’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Boscastle as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Boscastle
Camelford leads the towns around it, with 4 names.
Questions about famous people from Boscastle
Who counts as from Boscastle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Boscastle’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 (2)
- Liane Collot d’Herbois: IONA-Archiv, Owingen, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Gross: WanderingTrad, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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