Photo: Mike Crowe · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Heathfield
No famous person’s birth in Heathfield is on record yet. The nearest list is in Ashburton, 6 mi away: 9 names, starting with Richard Carlile. Across Devon, 83 towns list someone born there. Plymouth’s 565 names make the longest list in Devon.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Heathfield’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Heathfield yet.
Famous people born near Heathfield
The most names next door are in Ashburton: 9.
Ashburton · 6 miRichard Carlile & 8 moreAHBovey Tracey · 2 miArnold Wienholt Hodson & 3 moreHBKingsteignton · 3 miHenry Beeke & 2 more
Chudleigh · 3 miEdward Fortescue Wright & 1 moreHKNewton Abbot · 3 miHenry Kitson
Denbury · 4 miLettice Curtis
Kingskerswell · 6 miIan DiamondVMIpplepen · 6 miVivian MajendieQuestions about famous people from Heathfield
Who counts as from Heathfield?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Heathfield’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
- Edward Fortescue Wright: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lettice Curtis: RAF, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Diamond: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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