Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Axmouth is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Sidmouth, 9 mi away: 16, led by Edmund Leach. The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names. Exeter has the second-longest list in Devon, after Plymouth, with 303. In all of Devon, the famous people on record come from 83 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Axmouth’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Axmouth yet.
Famous people born near Axmouth
Of the towns nearby, Sidmouth lists the most people: 16.
Honiton · 9 miJoanne Pavey & 14 more
Ottery St Mary · 10 miSamuel Taylor Coleridge & 10 more
Lyme Regis · 5 miMary Anning & 8 moreJDSeaton · 1 miJohn Denham & 5 more
Colyton · 2 miSir George Yonge, 5th Baronet & 4 more
Axminster · 5 miWilliam Buckland & 1 moreWWBeer · 2 miWilliam Henry WoodgateQuestions about famous people from Axmouth
Who counts as from Axmouth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Axmouth’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 (5)
- Joanne Pavey: SNappa2006, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Anning: Credited to 'Mr. Grey' in Crispin Tickell's book 'Mary Anning of Lyme Regis' (1996), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet: Edmund Scott, published by Samuel William Fores, after Mather Brown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Buckland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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