Photo: ChurchCrawler · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Blackford
The neighbour with the longest list is Glastonbury, 7 mi away: 21, led by Cameron Kurle. Across Somerset, the lists cover 100 towns. No famous person on record lists Blackford as their birthplace yet. Bath’s 343 names make the longest list in Somerset.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Blackford’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Blackford yet.
Famous people born near Blackford
Close by, Glastonbury counts 21 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Axbridge · 5 miMark Pizey & 7 moreJPBurnham-on-Sea · 7 miJohn Pople & 6 moreDBWedmore · 1 miDickie Burrough & 1 more
Highbridge · 6 miFrank Foley & 1 moreHGWinscombe and Sandford · 7 miHelen Greaves & 1 moreCGDraycott · 4 miCharles GoodallJPCheddar · 5 miJane R. PriceQuestions about famous people from Blackford
Who counts as from Blackford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Blackford’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 (2)
- Mark Pizey: John Alfred Hampton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Foley: UK government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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