Notable People
See also: Category:People from Flushing, Cornwall- Morwenna Banks, actress, was born here
- James Silk Buckingham, author, politician and social reformer was also born here.
- Harrison Hayter engineer, was born here.
- John Marquis, author, editor, sports writer and publisher
- Admiral Lord Nelson owned a house in St Peter's Road.
- The naval family of Bartholomew James Sulivan (1810–1890) maintained a house here, as did many Royal and merchant Navy officers in the nineteenth century. Sulivan as a young naval officer in the 1830s was a friend and shipmate of Charles Darwin on the historic HMS Beagle voyage of Charles Darwin (which docked in Falmouth on 2 October 1836, an event briefly recorded in Darwin's journal of the voyage).
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