Photo: Tony Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Lanner is listed yet
Famous people are on record for 69 of the towns in Cornwall. For more famous names, Redruth is 2 mi away: its list has 36, led by Kristin Scott Thomas. No town in Cornwall lists more than Truro, with 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 Lanner’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Lanner yet.
Famous people born near Lanner
Redruth leads the towns around it, with 36 names.
Questions about famous people from Lanner
Who counts as from Lanner?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lanner’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)
- Kristin Scott Thomas: Maximilian Bühn, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Martin: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Trevithick: John Linnell, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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