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Famous people · Yeovil, Somerset
Musicians stand out among the 68 famous people born in Yeovil
Articles in 21 languages make the English actress Sarah Parish the best known. Only 2 towns in Somerset list more. George Glyde (1821) and Brooklyn Genesini (2001) mark the two ends of the list. The largest group, 30, was born since 1970.
Born here
68
notable people
Best known
Sarah Parish
in 21 Wikipedia languages
First
1821
George Glyde
Youngest
2001
Brooklyn Genesini
Most common field
Sports
32 people
What stands out about Yeovil’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Yeovil is known for
Yeovil has 2.3× the usual share of musicians.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Yeovil’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1980s, at 14.
SportsMusicScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotableMilitaryBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Yeovil
Sarah Parish, Heather Stanning and Lloyd Isgrove are written about in 21, 19 and 17 languages.
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Sports
Lloyd Isgrove
born 1993Welsh association football player (born 1993)
17 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Yeovil
65 more names, born between 1821 and 2001.
Michael Davies
1936–2004British teacher and traditionalist Catholic writer
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Catherine Rowett
born 1956Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia (born 1956)
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Henry James Knight
1878–1955English military officer (1878–1955); recipient of the Victoria Cross
MilitaryWikipedia ↗
Walter Adams
1830–1892Australian politician, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1830-1892)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Sherborne: 26.
Sherborne · 5 miJames Bradley & 25 more
Crewkerne · 8 miMark Pritchard & 5 moreRBIlchester · 5 miRoger Bacon & 3 more
Martock · 6 miThomas Southwood Smith & 1 more
South Petherton · 7 miJohn Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton & 1 moreREMilborne Port · 8 miRobert Ensor & 1 more
Misterton · 8 miEllen Buckingham Mathews & 1 moreMCSomerton · 9 miMarmaduke Cradock & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Yeovil
Who is the most famous person from Yeovil?
Sarah Parish (English actress) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 21 languages. Next come Heather Stanning and Lloyd Isgrove.
How many famous people were born in Yeovil?
68 people born in Yeovil have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 73 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Yeovil known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 32 of the 68. That is 47% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Yeovil?
George Glyde, born in 1821. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Yeovil?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Yeovil’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 (25)
- Heather Stanning: Richard Gillin from St Albans, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Cranie: Jon Candy from Cardiff, Wales, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Vanessa White: See Li, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Parish: Jas Wood, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Banton: Smkphotos, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marlie Packer: Marlie Packer, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Wheeldon: The Tony Awards, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Debbie Googe: Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Catherine Rowett: Joseph John Casey, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Weale: joncandy, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Cregan: Mark Kieve, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Helen Bleazard: Ailura, Derivative Work: Carlos Kickabaw, CC BY-SA 3.0 at, Wikimedia Commons
- John Mealing: Capitol Records., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Edward McCallum: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Hembery: PHOTO 4, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brooklyn Genesini: Cazza3012, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Glyde: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry James Knight: Southwell, Battersea (no individual credited), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Adams: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Glover: Timmy96, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Bradley: After Thomas Hudson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Pritchard: Claire Rowland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Southwood Smith: James Charles Armytage / After Margaret Gillies, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton: . The original uploader was RossLoudon at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ellen Buckingham Mathews: Stanislaw Walery (1863 - 1935), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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