Chapel of St Mary Including Boundary Walls Adjoining to North West · Photo: John Lord · CC BY-SA 2.0South Zeal has yet to put a famous person on the list
83 towns in Devon have at least one famous person on record. For more famous names, Okehampton is 4 mi away: its list has 8, led by James Churchward. The longest list of any town in Devon belongs to Plymouth, with 565. Exeter has the second-longest list in Devon, after Plymouth, with 303.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in South Zeal’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in South Zeal yet.
Famous people born near South Zeal
Nearby, Okehampton has the most on record, with 8.
Questions about famous people from South Zeal
Who counts as from South Zeal?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside South Zeal’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)
- James Churchward: Domínio público. Foto muito antiga, do primeiro quartel do século 19., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Endecott: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Feargus B. Squire: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Jackson: Saint-Mémin, Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de, 1770-1852, artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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