Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Fivehead is on the famous people list yet
Of its neighbours, Langport, 5 mi away, lists the most: 7, Walter Bagehot first. 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 Fivehead’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Fivehead yet.
Famous people born near Fivehead
Around it, Langport has the most people on record, 7 of them.
Langport · 5 miWalter Bagehot & 6 morePAIlminster · 5 miPaul Adcock & 6 moreCDNorth Curry · 3 miCharles Holcombe Dare & 1 more
South Petherton · 6 miJohn Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton & 1 more
Martock · 7 miThomas Southwood Smith & 1 moreCBNorth Petherton · 7 miCecil Banes-Walker & 1 moreDFCurry Rivel · 3 miDavid Howard Maude-Roxby-Montalto di FragnitoPWCreech St Michael · 5 miPercival WhittonQuestions about famous people from Fivehead
Who counts as from Fivehead?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fivehead’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)
- Walter Bagehot: Norman Hirst (1862–1956), after Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton: . The original uploader was RossLoudon at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Southwood Smith: James Charles Armytage / After Margaret Gillies, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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