Wiltshire is known for countless celebrity links, but there’s one town in particular with an impressive number of connections.

Wikipedia’s category: “people by city of town in England” outlines which famous names are associated with different places in the UK- and it turns out that Devizes had the most names linked to it out of all our Wiltshire towns.

84, to be exact.

Here is the list of notable people from the town which you might recognise:

  • Chris Allen (footballer, born 1989)
  • Francis E. Anstie
  • Christopher Awdry
  • Harold Walter Bailey
  • John Baker (fl. 1421)
  • John Barnard (cyclist)
  • William Benger
  • Ian Bishop (priest)
  • James Bittner
  • Charles Blackwell (engineer)
  • Thomas Evans Blackwell
  • Richard Brunker
  • Robert Chandler (MP for Devizes)
  • Basil Chivers
  • Sally Clark
  • John Coventre (MP for Devizes)
  • Thomas Coventre (MP for Devizes)
  • William Coventre III
  • Cecil Willett Cunnington
  • Richard of Devizes
  • David Domoney

Wiltshire Times: Domoney currently co-presents the TV gardening programme Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh, and is the gardener on ITV1's This Morning.Domoney currently co-presents the TV gardening programme Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh, and is the gardener on ITV1's This Morning. (Image: ITV)

  • Robert Drew (politician)
  • Fanny Duberly
  • Thomas Grimston Estcourt
  • John Eyles (Devizes MP)
  • Simon Fanshawe
  • John Fauconer
  • Paul Fletcher (politician)
  • Richard Gobet
  • Malcolm Godden
  • Jon Guthrie
  • Edward Hannes
  • Helen Haste
  • Edward Heynes
  • Samuel Hood (priest)
  • John Huwet
  • James Waylen
  • Arwyn Jones
  • John Kent (will proven 1669)
  • Thomas Kent (MP)
  • John Kingston (MP)
  • Henry Leke
  • Charlotte Long
  • Simon May
  • Henry Meek
  • Henry Morris (MP
  • Elizabeth Neville (police officer)
  • John Nicholas (Devizes MP)
  • Robert Nicholas (judge)
  • Robert Parry Nisbet
  • John Norden (MP)
  • Harry Offer
  • Daphne Oram
  • Roy Palmer (cricketer)
  • Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch
  • John Peyntour
  • Thomas Pierce
  • George Provis
  • George Reynolds (MP for Devizes)
  • Clive Robertson (actor)
  • Victor H. Rumsey
  • Richard Salter (artist)
  • William Salter (MP)
  • William Saunders (Liberal politician)
  • Neil Scarisbrick
  • Richard Smith (MP for Devizes)
  • Robert Smith (MP for Devizes)
  • David Stancliffe
  • William Heath Strange
  • James Sutton (MP)
  • William Henry Thomas Sylvester
  • John Tapener
  • Joseph Needham Tayler
  • Charlotte Tebay
  • Robert Tyndale
  • Jessie Wadworth
  • Philip Carteret Webb
  • Henry Webbe
  • James Webbe
  • John Whichcord Snr
  • William Willy
  • Dwain Winter

Do you know any of these names? Let us know in the comments below.

For a closer look at some of the recognisable people in Devizes, you can read more here: Famous people who make the town proud