Church of St Peter and St Paul · Photo: BrianAnalogue · CC BY-SA 3.0No one born in Ermington has made the famous people list yet
Robert Falcon Scott tops the 565 names on record in Plymouth, 10 mi away. The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303. Across Devon, the lists cover 83 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ermington’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ermington yet.
Famous people born near Ermington
Of the towns nearby, Plymouth lists the most people: 565.
Plymouth · 10 miRobert Falcon Scott & 564 more
Totnes · 11 miIan Bryce & 17 more
Kingsbridge · 8 miGiselle Ansley & 10 more
Ivybridge · 2 miLuke Summerfield & 6 more
Modbury · 2 miThomas Savery & 2 moreTWBuckfastleigh · 10 miThomas Willcocks & 2 moreBLSouth Brent · 6 miBetsy Lobb
Loddiswell · 6 miRichard PeekQuestions about famous people from Ermington
Who counts as from Ermington?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ermington’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)
- Robert Falcon Scott: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Bryce: Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Steve Owsley, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Giselle Ansley: fourthandfifteen, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Summerfield: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Savery: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Peek: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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