Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Holcombe has yet to put a famous person on the list
Nearby, Teignmouth, 1 mi away, lists 24, led by John Pulman. Plymouth’s 565 names make the longest list in Devon. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303. In all of Devon, the famous people on record come from 83 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Holcombe’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Holcombe yet.
Famous people born near Holcombe
The fullest list close by belongs to Teignmouth, with 24.
Exmouth · 6 miPauline Collins & 22 more
Dawlish · 1 miFrederick Holman & 13 moreCPShaldon · 2 miCharles Parsons & 2 moreHBKingsteignton · 5 miHenry Beeke & 2 more
Chudleigh · 6 miEdward Fortescue Wright & 1 moreJNLympstone · 6 miJohn Nutt & 1 moreHKNewton Abbot · 6 miHenry KitsonQuestions about famous people from Holcombe
Who counts as from Holcombe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Holcombe’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 (3)
- Pauline Collins: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Holman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Fortescue Wright: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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