Photo: Alan Hunt · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Haytor Vale
Of the famous people on record, none was born in Haytor Vale. For more famous names, Ashburton is 4 mi away: its list has 9, led by Richard Carlile. Plymouth’s 565 names make the longest list in Devon. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Haytor Vale’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Haytor Vale yet.
Famous people born near Haytor Vale
Of the towns nearby, Ashburton lists the most people: 9.
Ashburton · 4 miRichard Carlile & 8 moreAHBovey Tracey · 3 miArnold Wienholt Hodson & 3 more
Moretonhampstead · 6 miJames Jackson & 2 moreHBKingsteignton · 7 miHenry Beeke & 2 moreTWBuckfastleigh · 7 miThomas Willcocks & 2 more
Chudleigh · 6 miEdward Fortescue Wright & 1 more
Denbury · 6 miLettice CurtisHKNewton Abbot · 6 miHenry KitsonQuestions about famous people from Haytor Vale
Who counts as from Haytor Vale?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Haytor Vale’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 (4)
- Richard Carlile: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Jackson: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852, artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Fortescue Wright: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lettice Curtis: RAF, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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