Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Stokenham, Totnes lists 18 famous people
Not one famous person on record comes from Stokenham yet. 83 towns in Devon have at least one famous person on record. The longest list of any town in Devon belongs to 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 Stokenham’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Stokenham yet.
Famous people born near Stokenham
Nearby, Totnes has the most on record, with 18.
Questions about famous people from Stokenham
Who counts as from Stokenham?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Stokenham’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)
- Ian Bryce: Mass Communications Specialist 1st Class Steve Owsley, USN, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Giselle Ansley: fourthandfifteen, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Gosling: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ingythewingy/, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Savery: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Harbord: Film screenshot (Universal Pictures), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Peek: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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