Photo: David Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Witheridge, Tiverton lists 33 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Witheridge is on record yet. The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names. Exeter has the second-longest list in Devon, after Plymouth, with 303. 83 towns in Devon have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Witheridge’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Witheridge yet.
Famous people born near Witheridge
The neighbour with the most names is Tiverton, at 33.
Tiverton · 10 miHarry Mitchell & 32 more
Crediton · 9 miSaint Boniface & 14 moreESSouth Molton · 9 miEmma Sing & 4 moreKRMorchard Bishop · 5 miKevin Rice & 2 more
Bow · 9 miFeargus B. Squire & 2 moreNHNorth Tawton · 12 miNicholas Hughes & 2 more
Bampton · 11 miWilliam LuxtonHBSilverton · 12 miHarold BlackmoreQuestions about famous people from Witheridge
Who counts as from Witheridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Witheridge’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)
- Harry Mitchell: Le Miroir des Sports, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Saint Boniface: Cornelis Bloemaert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Feargus B. Squire: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Luxton: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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