#1Famous people · Rode, Somerset
2 famous people come from Rode, Harold Gilman the best known
Articles in 15 languages make the English painter Harold Gilman the best known. The list has one more: the American politician John Wereat. From John Wereat to Harold Gilman, the births on the list run from 1733 to 1876. For more famous names, Trowbridge is 4 mi away: its list has 39, led by Nathan Dyer.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Harold Gilman
in 15 Wikipedia languages
First
1733
John Wereat
Youngest
1876
Harold Gilman
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 people
The best known
Born in Rode
#1#2Known for
What Rode is known for
Writers and artists are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Trowbridge, with 39.
Questions about famous people from Rode
Who is the most famous person from Rode?
Harold Gilman (English painter (1876-1919)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 15 languages. Next come John Wereat.
How many famous people were born in Rode?
2 people born in Rode have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Rode known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Rode?
John Wereat, born in 1733. The youngest on the list was born in 1876.
Who counts as from Rode?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Rode’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 (7)
- Harold Gilman: Walter Sickert, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wereat: The original painting, attributed to Rembrandt Peale, is owned by and is housed at the Georgia Historical Society., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Nathan Dyer: Ronnie Macdonald, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Shrapnel: Unidentified painter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jenson Button: Engyles, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bryan Edwards: Lemuel Francis Abbott, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Alfred Parsons: not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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