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Famous people · Teignmouth, Devon
Teignmouth’s famous people span 144 years: 24 births from 1808 to 1952
Articles in 22 languages make the English snooker player John Pulman the best known. The English double bassist Danny Thompson ranks second, ahead of Charles Vanden Wouwer. In the 20th century, 12 were born, the most of any period. More are athletes than anything else, 8 in all.
Born here
24
notable people
Best known
John Pulman
in 22 Wikipedia languages
First
1808
Elias Parish Alvars
Youngest
1952
Ian Twitchin
Most common field
Sports
8 people
The best known
Born in Teignmouth
Ranked by languages covered: John Pulman with 22, then Danny Thompson with 16 and Charles Vanden Wouwer with 15.
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Sports
Charles Vanden Wouwer
1916–1989Belgian association football player (1916-1989)
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Through the years
When Teignmouth’s famous people were born
The 1920s saw the most births of any decade: 7.
SportsWriting & ArtsMilitaryPolitics & LawMusicFilm, TV & StageFaithNotableScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Teignmouth is known for
Soldiers and sailors stand out most, at 3.4 times the usual share.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Teignmouth
The rest number 21, with 6 athletes among them.
Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt
1811–1888British admiral, hydrographer and geologist (1811–1888)
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Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet
1893–1983English member of parliament and recipient of the Victoria Cross (1893–1983)
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Juliana Emma Linter
1844–1909British conchologist and collector, donated the Linter collection to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
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No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Torquay, with 117.
Questions about famous people from Teignmouth
Who is the most famous person from Teignmouth?
John Pulman (English snooker player (1923–1998)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 22 languages. Next come Danny Thompson and Charles Vanden Wouwer.
How many famous people were born in Teignmouth?
24 people born in Teignmouth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 29 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Teignmouth known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 24. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Teignmouth?
Elias Parish Alvars, born in 1808. The youngest on the list was born in 1952.
Who counts as from Teignmouth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Teignmouth’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 (12)
- Danny Thompson: David Laws, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elias Parish Alvars: Josef Kriehuber, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Abel Brimage Spratt: Schembri & Zahra, Malta, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet: A.W. (unidentified), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Strutt: William Strutt (died 1915), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sophia Frances Anne Caulfeild: unknown maybe Caulfeild, S. F. A. (Sophia Frances Anne),, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Bennett Lawes: "VER" (François Verheyden, 1806-1899 or 1900), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Tozer: Anderson-Morshead, A. E. M, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Agatha Christie: Joop van Bilsen for Anefo, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frederick Holman: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Fortescue Wright: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Diamond: DFID - UK Department for International Development, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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