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Photo: Totnesmartin · Public domainFamous people · Marldon, Devon
Robert Adams is the only name on the Marldon list
Robert Adams, the British gunsmith, was born in 1809. That places their birth in the Georgian era. 8 languages have an article about them. A short trip away, Torquay (3 mi) counts 117 famous people, Agatha Christie among them.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Robert Adams
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1809
Robert Adams
The best known
Born in Marldon
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Torquay leads the towns around it, with 117 names.
Questions about famous people from Marldon
Who is the most famous person from Marldon?
Robert Adams (British gunsmith) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages.
How many famous people were born in Marldon?
1 people born in Marldon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
Who counts as from Marldon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Marldon’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 (5)
- Agatha Christie: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sue Barker: Flickr user Steve Punter, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Bryce: Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Steve Owsley, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Gosling: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ingythewingy/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Diamond: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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