#1Famous people · Honiton, Devon
15 famous people were born in Honiton, more of them soldiers and sailors than in most towns
Articles in 19 languages make the ESpañol long-distance runner Joanne Pavey the best known. The next two names are Maurice Setters and Marcus Wyatt. The largest group, 5, was born in the 20th century. George Blagdon Westcott (1753) and Marcus Wyatt (1991) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
15
notable people
Best known
Joanne Pavey
in 19 Wikipedia languages
First
1753
George Blagdon Westcott
Youngest
1991
Marcus Wyatt
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Honiton’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Honiton is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is soldiers and sailors, at 7.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Honiton
All three are athletes.
#1MS#2
Sports
Maurice Setters
1936–2020English footballer and manager (born 1936)
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#3Through the years
When Honiton’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1930s, at 2.
SportsMilitaryScience & MedicineNotableWriting & ArtsFilm, TV & StagePolitics & LawFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Honiton
12 more, best known first.
Charles William Bowerman
1851–1947British trade unionist and politician (1851-1947)
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Honiton, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Honiton
Who is the most famous person from Honiton?
Joanne Pavey (ESpañol long-distance runner) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 19 languages. Next come Maurice Setters and Marcus Wyatt.
How many famous people were born in Honiton?
15 people born in Honiton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 23 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Honiton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 15. That is 27% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Honiton?
George Blagdon Westcott, born in 1753. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from Honiton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Honiton’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 (9)
- Joanne Pavey: SNappa2006, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marcus Wyatt: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles William Bowerman: Bain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Blagdon Westcott: Sir Robert Smirke; William Bromley; John Landseer; R. Bowyer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Harris Murch: George Frederick Clarke, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet: Edmund Scott, published by Samuel William Fores, after Mather Brown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Buckland: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Scadding: w:J.J. Millikin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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