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Photo: Steven Haslington · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Perranporth, Cornwall
Perranporth is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Articles in 9 languages make the British racing driver Donald Healey the best known. The list has one more: the British artist Judy Inglis. Nearby, Truro, 7 mi away, lists 116, led by Michael Adams. From Donald Healey in 1898 to Judy Inglis in 1952, the births cover 54 years.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Donald Healey
in 9 Wikipedia languages
First
1898
Donald Healey
Youngest
1952
Judy Inglis
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Perranporth
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Known for
What Perranporth is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Truro counts 116 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Perranporth
Who is the most famous person from Perranporth?
Donald Healey (British racing driver (1898-1988)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages. Next come Judy Inglis.
How many famous people were born in Perranporth?
2 people born in Perranporth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Perranporth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Perranporth?
Donald Healey, born in 1898. The youngest on the list was born in 1952.
Who counts as from Perranporth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Perranporth’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 (1)
- Michael Adams: Paul Meyer-Dunker, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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