Photo: Lewis Clarke · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Hemyock is on the famous people list yet
The nearest list is in Wellington, 4 mi away: 22 names, starting with Simon Singh. Plymouth has the most of any town in Devon: 565. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303. Across Devon, 83 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Hemyock’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Hemyock yet.
Famous people born near Hemyock
Of the towns nearby, 7 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Hemyock
Who counts as from Hemyock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hemyock’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)
- Simon Singh: Richardc39, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanne Pavey: SNappa2006, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Young: Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- De Lacy O'Leary: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Scadding: w:J.J. Millikin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Baird: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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