Photo: Roger A Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Landkey is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Barnstaple is 3 mi away: its list has 75, led by John Gay. Famous people are on record for 83 of the towns in Devon. Plymouth’s 565 names make the longest list in Devon. After Plymouth, the next longest list in Devon is Exeter’s, with 303.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Landkey’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Landkey yet.
Famous people born near Landkey
The neighbour with the most names is Barnstaple, at 75.
Barnstaple · 3 miJohn Gay & 74 more
Bideford · 10 miRichard Grenville & 28 more
Great Torrington · 10 miWilliam Johnson Cory & 7 moreGSNortham · 9 miGeorge Stapledon & 5 moreESSouth Molton · 8 miEmma Sing & 4 more
Appledore · 8 miEdward Calvert & 3 moreDBBraunton · 8 miDanny Barrow & 1 moreGWWestward Ho! · 10 miG. N. WatsonQuestions about famous people from Landkey
Who counts as from Landkey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Landkey’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 (4)
- John Gay: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Grenville: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Johnson Cory: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Calvert: Edward Calvert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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