Photo: Rob Purvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Copplestone has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 12 mi away, Exeter’s list holds 303 names, Chris Martin the best known. In all of Devon, the famous people on record come from 83 towns. 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 Copplestone’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Copplestone yet.
Famous people born near Copplestone
Exeter has the longest list next door: 303.
Exeter · 12 miChris Martin & 302 more
Crediton · 4 miSaint Boniface & 14 more
Okehampton · 12 miJames Churchward & 7 more
Chagford · 10 miJohn Endecott & 3 moreKRMorchard Bishop · 3 miKevin Rice & 2 more
Bow · 3 miFeargus B. Squire & 2 moreNHNorth Tawton · 7 miNicholas Hughes & 2 more
Moretonhampstead · 10 miJames Jackson & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Copplestone
Who counts as from Copplestone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Copplestone’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 (6)
- Chris Martin: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Saint Boniface: Cornelis Bloemaert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Churchward: Domínio público. Foto muito antiga, do primeiro quartel do século 19., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Endecott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Feargus B. Squire: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Jackson: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852, artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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