Church of St David · Photo: Geoff Pick · CC BY-SA 2.0Barton St David has no famous person on record yet
Go 9 mi to Wells and the list grows to 35, with Mary Rand at the top. The Somerset lists hold names for 100 towns. The longest list in Somerset is Bath’s, with 343 names. Taunton has the second-longest list in Somerset, after Bath, with 146.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Barton St David’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Barton St David yet.
Famous people born near Barton St David
Around it, Wells has the most people on record, 35 of them.
Wells · 9 miMary Rand & 34 moreCKGlastonbury · 5 miCameron Kurle & 20 moreEAShepton Mallet · 9 miEdmund Adams & 10 moreVSStreet · 5 miVictor Samuel Summerhayes & 6 more
Langport · 8 miWalter Bagehot & 6 more
Castle Cary · 6 miJames Woodforde & 5 moreRBIlchester · 6 miRoger Bacon & 3 moreMCSomerton · 4 miMarmaduke Cradock & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Barton St David
Who counts as from Barton St David?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Barton St David’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)
- Mary Rand: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Bagehot: Norman Hirst (1862–1956), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Woodforde: Samuel Woodforde, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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