Photo: Tim Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Brushford is listed yet
For more famous names, Tiverton is 8 mi away: its list has 33, led by Harry Mitchell. Bath’s 343 names make the longest list in Somerset. After Bath, the next longest list in Somerset is Taunton’s, with 146. Across Somerset, 100 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Brushford’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Brushford yet.
Famous people born near Brushford
Close by, the fullest list is Tiverton’s, at 33 names.
Questions about famous people from Brushford
Who counts as from Brushford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Brushford’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
- Frank Hancock: File:Frank Hancock (Rygbi).jpg: Walter Alfred Pearce derivative work: Pbrks, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Luxton: William Cochrane (1831-1898) and John Castell Hopkins (1864-1923), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sam Baird: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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