#1Famous people · Uffculme, Devon
Sam Baird is the only name on the Uffculme list
Sam Baird, the English snooker player, was born in 1988. Articles about them exist in 11 languages. For more famous names, Tiverton is 6 mi away: its list has 33, led by Harry Mitchell. The longest list of any town in Devon belongs to Plymouth, with 565.
Born here
1
notable people
Best known
Sam Baird
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1988
Sam Baird
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Uffculme
#1Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Tiverton has the most people on record, 33 of them.
Questions about famous people from Uffculme
Who is the most famous person from Uffculme?
Sam Baird (English snooker player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 11 languages.
How many famous people were born in Uffculme?
1 people born in Uffculme have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Uffculme known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who counts as from Uffculme?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Uffculme’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)
- Sam Baird: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Mitchell: Le Miroir des Sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Singh: Richardc39, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- De Lacy O'Leary: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Young: Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Scadding: w:J.J. Millikin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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