Photo: Roger Cornfoot · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Easton yet, but Wells next door has 35
Across Somerset, the lists cover 100 towns. Bath’s 343 names make the longest list in Somerset. After Bath, the next longest list in Somerset is Taunton’s, with 146. The best known born in Wells is Mary Rand.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Easton’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Easton yet.
Famous people born near Easton
Of the towns nearby, Wells lists the most people: 35.
Wells · 3 miMary Rand & 34 moreCKGlastonbury · 5 miCameron Kurle & 20 moreEAShepton Mallet · 7 miEdmund Adams & 10 more
Axbridge · 7 miMark Pizey & 7 moreVSStreet · 7 miVictor Samuel Summerhayes & 6 moreDBWedmore · 5 miDickie Burrough & 1 moreCGDraycott · 3 miCharles GoodallJPCheddar · 5 miJane R. PriceQuestions about famous people from Easton
Who counts as from Easton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Easton’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)
- Mary Rand: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pizey: John Alfred Hampton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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