#1Sports
Luke Summerfield
born 1987English association football player (born 1987)
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Famous people · Ivybridge, Devon
From 1847 to 2002, Ivybridge was the birthplace of 7 famous people
The best known is the English association football player Luke Summerfield, with articles in 8 languages. Gordon McLeod and Edmund Baron Hartley follow. Most were born in the Victorian era: 4 of them. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Luke Summerfield
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1847
Edmund Baron Hartley
Youngest
2002
Oliver Tomlinson
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Ivybridge
Luke Summerfield, Gordon McLeod and Edmund Baron Hartley are written about in 8, 6 and 3 languages.
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#3Military
Edmund Baron Hartley
1847–1919British military officer (1847–1919); recipient of the Victoria Cross
3 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Ivybridge’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1860s than in any other decade: 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ivybridge is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ivybridge
4 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Plymouth lists the most people: 565.
Questions about famous people from Ivybridge
Who is the most famous person from Ivybridge?
Luke Summerfield (English association football player (born 1987)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Gordon McLeod and Edmund Baron Hartley.
How many famous people were born in Ivybridge?
7 people born in Ivybridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ivybridge known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 7. That is 29% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ivybridge?
Edmund Baron Hartley, born in 1847. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Ivybridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ivybridge’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 (10)
- Luke Summerfield: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Baron Hartley: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stan Turner: Stanley Devon, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Huxham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Falcon Scott: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Bryce: Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Steve Owsley, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Giselle Ansley: fourthandfifteen, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Savery: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Peek: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Antony Jinman: Markrglover, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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