#1Famous people · Welsh
Phillip Walker tops a list of 4 famous people born in Welsh
At the top of the list is the American electric blues guitarist Phillip Walker, covered in 12 languages. Rolland Romero and Clarence Garlow follow. The first birth on record is Clarence Garlow’s, in 1911, and the last Lance Guidry’s, in 1971. Per head, the list is long: 12.1 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Louisiana has 4.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Phillip Walker
in 12 Wikipedia languages
First
1911
Clarence Garlow
Youngest
1971
Lance Guidry
Most common field
Music
2 people
The best known
Born in Welsh
Two of the three are musicians.
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Music
Clarence Garlow
1911–1986American R&B, jump blues, Texas blues and cajun guitarist, singer and songwriter
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Welsh’s famous people were born
The 1910s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Welsh is known for
Music leads the fields, with 2 people.
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From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Welsh and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (3)
- Phillip Walker: Photo by Masahiro Sumori, Masahiro Sumori, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rolland Romero: ACME, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lance Guidry: Summer Richard-Boudreaux, CC BY 1.0, Wikimedia Commons