#1Famous people · St Just, Cornwall
6 famous people were born in St Just
Charles Luke, the mayor of Wellington, is the most widely known, written about in 2 languages. Second and third on the list are James Howard Williams and William Lawry. In the Victorian era, 4 were born, the most of any period. From William Oats to William Lawry, the births on the list run from 1841 to 1940.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Charles Luke
in 2 Wikipedia languages
First
1841
William Oats
Youngest
1940
William Lawry
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in St Just
Ranked by languages covered: Charles Luke with 2, then James Howard Williams with 2 and William Lawry with 2.
#1JW#2
Military
James Howard Williams
1897–1958British army officer and forester (1897–1958)
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Through the years
When St Just’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1850s come out on top, with 1 births.
Politics & LawMilitarySportsScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What St Just is known for
St Just has 5.7× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in St Just
3 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Penzance counts 69 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from St Just
Who is the most famous person from St Just?
Charles Luke (mayor of Wellington (1857-1941)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages. Next come James Howard Williams and William Lawry.
How many famous people were born in St Just?
6 people born in St Just have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is St Just known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 3 of the 6. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from St Just?
William Oats, born in 1841. The youngest on the list was born in 1940.
Who counts as from St Just?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside St Just’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 (6)
- Charles Luke: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Humphry Davy: Thomas Phillips, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Lloyd: William Lloyd, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Hichens: Board of Trade, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Davies Gilbert: Painting by Henry Howard RA (31 January 1769 – 5 October 1847); Engraved by John Thompson (25 May 1785–20 February 1866), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Cole: Margaret Sarah Carpenter (1793-1872), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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