Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0Downderry has no famous person on record yet
Plymouth, 11 mi away, has 565 on its list, the best known Robert Falcon Scott. The longest list of any town in Cornwall belongs to 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 Downderry’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Downderry yet.
Famous people born near Downderry
The longest list nearby is Plymouth’s, with 565.
Plymouth · 11 miRobert Falcon Scott & 564 moreRPSaltash · 7 miRoyce Pierreson & 14 moreOCLiskeard · 8 miOllie Chenoweth & 10 more
Torpoint · 7 miJohn Langdon Down & 5 moreRBLooe · 4 miRay Bowden & 3 moreSCCallington · 10 miSelina Cooper & 3 moreGGPelynt · 7 miGeoffrey Grigson & 2 more
Millbrook · 7 miSheryll Murray & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Downderry
Who counts as from Downderry?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Downderry’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 (3)
- Robert Falcon Scott: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Langdon Down: Sydney Hodges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sheryll Murray: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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