Photo: JThomas · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Yelverton yet, but Plymouth next door has 565
The longest list in Devon is Plymouth’s, with 565 names. Exeter has the second-longest list in Devon, after Plymouth, with 303. Across Devon, 83 towns list someone born there. The best known born in Plymouth is Robert Falcon Scott.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Yelverton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Yelverton yet.
Famous people born near Yelverton
Nearby, Plymouth has the most on record, with 565.
Plymouth · 7 miRobert Falcon Scott & 564 more
Tavistock · 4 miFrancis Drake & 33 moreRPSaltash · 8 miRoyce Pierreson & 14 more
Torpoint · 10 miJohn Langdon Down & 5 moreSCCallington · 10 miSelina Cooper & 3 more
Gunnislake and St Ann's Chapel · 6 miThomas Ball Barratt & 1 more
Landrake · 10 miWilliam BealeQuestions about famous people from Yelverton
Who counts as from Yelverton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yelverton’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 (5)
- Robert Falcon Scott: Henry Maull (1829–1914) and John Fox (1832–1907), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Drake: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Langdon Down: Sydney Hodges, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Ball Barratt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Beale: Charles John Robertson (born 1779?), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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