Church of St Mary (Buckfast Abbey) · Photo: Necrothesp · CC BY-SA 3.0No famous person born in Buckfast is listed yet
Go 6 mi to Totnes and the list grows to 18, with Ian Bryce at the top. In Devon, 83 towns have someone on the list. The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names. Exeter has the second-longest list in Devon, after Plymouth, with 303.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Buckfast’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Buckfast yet.
Famous people born near Buckfast
Of the towns around it, Totnes has the most on record: 18.
Questions about famous people from Buckfast
Who counts as from Buckfast?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Buckfast’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 (3)
- Ian Bryce: Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Steve Owsley, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Carlile: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lettice Curtis: RAF, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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