Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Bishopsteignton
Torquay, 5 mi off, can claim 117 famous people, the best known Agatha Christie. No entry yet names Bishopsteignton as a birthplace. Famous people are on record for 83 of the towns in Devon. The longest list of any town in Devon belongs to Plymouth, with 565.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Bishopsteignton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Bishopsteignton yet.
Famous people born near Bishopsteignton
Close by, the fullest list is Torquay’s, at 117 names.
Torquay · 5 miAgatha Christie & 116 moreJPTeignmouth · 2 miJohn Pulman & 23 more
Dawlish · 4 miFrederick Holman & 13 moreCPShaldon · 2 miCharles Parsons & 2 moreHBKingsteignton · 2 miHenry Beeke & 2 more
Chudleigh · 4 miEdward Fortescue Wright & 1 moreHKNewton Abbot · 3 miHenry Kitson
Kingskerswell · 4 miIan DiamondQuestions about famous people from Bishopsteignton
Who counts as from Bishopsteignton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bishopsteignton’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 (4)
- Agatha Christie: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Holman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Fortescue Wright: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Diamond: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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