Photo: Ning-ning · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people from Otterton
Exmouth, 5 mi away, has 23 on its list, the best known Pauline Collins. No famous person on record lists Otterton as their birthplace yet. Across Devon, the lists cover 83 towns. The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Otterton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Otterton as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Otterton
Close by, Exmouth counts 23 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Otterton
Who counts as from Otterton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Otterton’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 (3)
- Pauline Collins: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Samuel Cousins / After Washington Allston, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dick Pym: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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