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Photo: dbown100 · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Banwell, Somerset
4 famous people were born in Banwell from 1863 to 1965
The best known is the professional footballer Mike Adams, with articles in 5 languages. Derek Hodgkinson is second and John Alan Lyde Caunter third. The list’s best known name, Mike Adams, dates from 1965. No town in Somerset lists more than Bath, with 343.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Mike Adams
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1863
William Job Maillard
Youngest
1965
Mike Adams
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Banwell
Two of the three are athletes.
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Through the years
When Banwell’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1960s than in any other decade: 1.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Banwell is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Banwell
1 more, best known first.
William Job Maillard
1863–1903British naval medical officer (1863–1903); recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Weston-super-Mare’s, at 65 names.
Questions about famous people from Banwell
Who is the most famous person from Banwell?
Mike Adams (professional footballer (born 1965)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Derek Hodgkinson and John Alan Lyde Caunter.
How many famous people were born in Banwell?
4 people born in Banwell have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Banwell known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Banwell?
William Job Maillard, born in 1863. The youngest on the list was born in 1965.
Who counts as from Banwell?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Banwell’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 (3)
- John Cleese: Miguel Discart & Kiri Karma, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pizey: John Alfred Hampton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Locke: Godfrey Kneller, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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