Photo: Bill Boaden · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people near Crowcombe: 146 in Taunton
No entry yet names Crowcombe as a birthplace. Bath’s 343 names make the longest list in Somerset. In all of Somerset, the famous people on record come from 100 towns. The best known born in Taunton is Jenny Agutter.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Crowcombe’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Crowcombe yet.
Famous people born near Crowcombe
Close by, Taunton counts 146 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Crowcombe
Who counts as from Crowcombe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Crowcombe’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)
- Jenny Agutter: See Li from London, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Hancock: File:Frank Hancock (Rygbi).jpg: Walter Alfred Pearce derivative work: Pbrks, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Young: Henry Perronet Briggs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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