#1Politics & Law
John Eliot
1592–1632Member of Parliament, Statesman and Vice-Admiral of Devon (1592-1632)
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Famous people · St Germans, Cornwall
John Eliot tops a list of 8 famous people born in St Germans
Best known of all is John Eliot, written about in 10 languages. In the Georgian era, 4 were born, the most of any period. Leaders make up the largest group, 3 of them. The list runs from John Eliot, born in 1592, to Keith Davis, born in 1935.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
John Eliot
in 10 Wikipedia languages
First
1592
John Eliot
Youngest
1935
Keith Davis
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
What stands out about St Germans’ famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When St Germans’s famous people were born
The 1760s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in St Germans
Two of the three are athletes.
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Known for
What St Germans is known for
St Germans has 4.3× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in St Germans
The other 5 span the years 1742 to 1911.
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Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Plymouth’s, at 565 names.
Plymouth · 8 miRobert Falcon Scott & 564 moreRPSaltash · 4 miRoyce Pierreson & 14 moreOCLiskeard · 8 miOllie Chenoweth & 10 more
Torpoint · 5 miJohn Langdon Down & 5 moreRBLooe · 7 miRay Bowden & 3 moreSCCallington · 8 miSelina Cooper & 3 more
Millbrook · 5 miSheryll Murray & 1 more
Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel · 10 miThomas Ball Barratt & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from St Germans
Who is the most famous person from St Germans?
John Eliot (Member of Parliament, Statesman and Vice-Admiral of Devon (1592-1632)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Keith Davis and Bill Dempsey.
How many famous people were born in St Germans?
8 people born in St Germans have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 10 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is St Germans known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 3 of the 8. That is 38% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from St Germans?
John Eliot, born in 1592. The youngest on the list was born in 1935.
Who counts as from St Germans?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside St Germans’ 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 (5)
- John Eliot: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- 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
- Thomas Ball Barratt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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