Photo: Derek Harper · CC BY-SA 2.0Catcott and Edington has no famous person on record yet
For more famous names, Bridgwater is 6 mi away: its list has 38, led by Robert Blake. 100 of the towns in Somerset list at least one person. The longest list in Somerset is Bath’s, with 343 names. After Bath, the next longest list in Somerset is Taunton’s, with 146.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Catcott and Edington’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Catcott and Edington yet.
Famous people born near Catcott and Edington
The longest list nearby is Bridgwater’s, with 38.
Bridgwater · 6 miRobert Blake & 37 moreCKGlastonbury · 7 miCameron Kurle & 20 moreVSStreet · 6 miVictor Samuel Summerhayes & 6 more
Langport · 8 miWalter Bagehot & 6 moreDBWedmore · 6 miDickie Burrough & 1 more
Highbridge · 7 miFrank Foley & 1 moreCBNorth Petherton · 8 miCecil Banes-Walker & 1 more
Woolavington · 3 miJohn JacobQuestions about famous people from Catcott and Edington
Who counts as from Catcott and Edington?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Catcott and Edington’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)
- Robert Blake: Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Bagehot: Norman Hirst (1862–1956), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Foley: UK government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Jacob: Lobsterthermidor at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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