Photo: Lee Vilenski · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people born near Cranbrook
The neighbour with the longest list is Exeter, 5 mi away: 303, led by Chris Martin. The list for Cranbrook is empty for now. 83 towns across Devon can name a famous person born there. The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cranbrook’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Cranbrook yet.
Famous people born near Cranbrook
Nearby, Exeter has the most on record, with 303.
Questions about famous people from Cranbrook
Who counts as from Cranbrook?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cranbrook’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)
- Chris Martin: Raph_PH, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dick Pym: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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