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Photo: Ray Girvan · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Lympstone, Devon
Lympstone’s famous people span 247 years: 2 births from 1599 to 1846
Articles in 4 languages make the English pirate John Nutt the best known. The list has one more: the cricketer Arthur Bartholomew. John Nutt was born in 1599. Of its neighbours, Exmouth, 2 mi away, lists the most: 23, Pauline Collins first.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
John Nutt
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1599
John Nutt
Youngest
1846
Arthur Bartholomew
The best known
Born in Lympstone
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Known for
What Lympstone is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 1.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
5 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Lympstone
Who is the most famous person from Lympstone?
John Nutt (English pirate) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Arthur Bartholomew.
How many famous people were born in Lympstone?
2 people born in Lympstone have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Lympstone?
John Nutt, born in 1599. The youngest on the list was born in 1846.
Who counts as from Lympstone?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Lympstone’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)
- Pauline Collins: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Holman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dick Pym: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Courtenay: Jonathan Cardy, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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