Photo: Andrew Abbott · CC BY-SA 2.0Buckland Monachorum has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 7 mi away, Plymouth’s list holds 565 names, Robert Falcon Scott the best known. The longest list of any town in Devon belongs to Plymouth, with 565. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303. In Devon, 83 towns have someone on the list.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Buckland Monachorum’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 2 people here, but none of their articles confirm Buckland Monachorum as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Buckland Monachorum
The fullest list close by belongs to Plymouth, with 565.
Plymouth · 7 miRobert Falcon Scott & 564 more
Tavistock · 3 miFrancis Drake & 33 moreRPSaltash · 7 miRoyce Pierreson & 14 more
Torpoint · 9 miJohn Langdon Down & 5 moreSCCallington · 8 miSelina Cooper & 3 more
Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel · 4 miThomas Ball Barratt & 1 more
Landrake · 8 miWilliam BealeQuestions about famous people from Buckland Monachorum
Who counts as from Buckland Monachorum?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Buckland Monachorum’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)
- Robert Falcon Scott: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Drake: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Langdon Down: Sydney Hodges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Ball Barratt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Beale: Charles John Robertson (born 1779?), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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