Photo: Oliver Mills · CC BY-SA 2.0Polruan has yet to put a famous person on the list
For more famous names, St Austell is 7 mi away: its list has 24, led by John Nettles. Across Cornwall, 69 towns list someone born there. The longest list in Cornwall is Truro’s, with 116 names. Penzance has the second-longest list in Cornwall, after Truro, with 69.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Polruan’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Polruan yet.
Famous people born near Polruan
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Polruan, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Polruan
Who counts as from Polruan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Polruan’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)
- John Nettles: Jersey Tourism, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Mackay: Jean-Luc, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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