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Sports
Brandon Pursall
born 2004English association football player (born 2004)
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Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · St Stephen, Cornwall
St Stephen has one famous person on record
In 2004, the English association football player Brandon Pursall was born. Readers can find them written up in 4 languages. Just 5 mi away, St Austell’s list holds 24 names, John Nettles the best known. 69 towns across Cornwall can name a famous person born there.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Brandon Pursall
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
2004
Brandon Pursall
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in St Stephen
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, St Austell lists the most people: 24.
Questions about famous people from St Stephen
Who is the most famous person from St Stephen?
Brandon Pursall (English association football player (born 2004)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages.
How many famous people were born in St Stephen?
1 people born in St Stephen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 2 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is St Stephen known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from St Stephen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside St Stephen’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
- John Stackhouse: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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