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Photo: Neil Owen · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Wedmore, Somerset
2 famous people call Wedmore their birthplace
Dickie Burrough, the cricketer, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The only other name is the British Royal Marines officer Charles Neville Strode Smith. Of its neighbours, Wells, 7 mi away, lists the most: 35, Mary Rand first. Born in 1898, Charles Neville Strode Smith is the first name on record, and Dickie Burrough, born in 1909, the most recent.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Dickie Burrough
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1898
Charles Neville Strode Smith
Youngest
1909
Dickie Burrough
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Wedmore
CS#2
Politics & Law
Charles Neville Strode Smith
1898–1955British Royal Marines officer (1898-1955)
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Known for
What Wedmore is known for
Share of Wedmore’s famous people in each field.
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 longest list nearby is Wells’, with 35.
Wells · 7 miMary Rand & 34 moreCKGlastonbury · 7 miCameron Kurle & 20 more
Axbridge · 4 miMark Pizey & 7 moreVSStreet · 8 miVictor Samuel Summerhayes & 6 moreMABanwell · 8 miMike Adams & 3 moreHGWinscombe and Sandford · 7 miHelen Greaves & 1 more
Highbridge · 7 miFrank Foley & 1 moreCGDraycott · 3 miCharles GoodallQuestions about famous people from Wedmore
Who is the most famous person from Wedmore?
Dickie Burrough (cricketer (1909-1994)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Charles Neville Strode Smith.
How many famous people were born in Wedmore?
2 people born in Wedmore have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Wedmore known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Wedmore?
Charles Neville Strode Smith, born in 1898. The youngest on the list was born in 1909.
Who counts as from Wedmore?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Wedmore’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)
- Mary Rand: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pizey: John Alfred Hampton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Foley: UK government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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