Photo: Gwyn Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Sherford is on the famous people list yet
Robert Falcon Scott tops the 565 names on record in Plymouth, 4 mi away. 83 towns in Devon have at least one famous person on record. No town in Devon lists more than Plymouth, with 565. 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 Sherford’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Sherford yet.
Famous people born near Sherford
The longest list nearby is Plymouth’s, with 565.
Plymouth · 4 miRobert Falcon Scott & 564 moreRPSaltash · 8 miRoyce Pierreson & 14 more
Ivybridge · 6 miLuke Summerfield & 6 more
Torpoint · 7 miJohn Langdon Down & 5 more
Modbury · 7 miThomas Savery & 2 more
Millbrook · 7 miSheryll Murray & 1 more
Wembury · 3 miAntony JinmanBLSouth Brent · 11 miBetsy LobbQuestions about famous people from Sherford
Who counts as from Sherford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Sherford’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 (6)
- Robert Falcon Scott: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Summerfield: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Langdon Down: Sydney Hodges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Savery: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sheryll Murray: Chris McAndrew, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Antony Jinman: Markrglover, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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