Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Holcombe Rogus
Of its neighbours, Tiverton, 7 mi away, lists the most: 33, Harry Mitchell first. Not one famous person on record comes from Holcombe Rogus yet. Across Devon, 83 towns list someone 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 Holcombe Rogus’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Holcombe Rogus yet.
Famous people born near Holcombe Rogus
Tiverton leads the towns around it, with 33 names.
Questions about famous people from Holcombe Rogus
Who counts as from Holcombe Rogus?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Holcombe Rogus’ 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 (8)
- Harry Mitchell: Le Miroir des Sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Singh: Richardc39, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Hancock: File:Frank Hancock (Rygbi).jpg: Walter Alfred Pearce derivative work: Pbrks, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Young: Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- De Lacy O'Leary: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Baird: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Luxton: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Scadding: w:J.J. Millikin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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