BJ#1
Sports
Bryn Jones
1939–2025British association football player (born 1939)
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Photo: Mat Fascione · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bagillt, Clwyd
Bagillt is the birthplace of 3 famous people
At the top of the list is the British association football player Bryn Jones, covered in 4 languages. John Mills is second and Billy Hough third. The first birth on record is Billy Hough’s, in 1908, and the last Bryn Jones’, in 1939. Just 6 mi away, Heswall’s list holds 18 names, John Peel the best known.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Bryn Jones
in 4 Wikipedia languages
First
1908
Billy Hough
Youngest
1939
Bryn Jones
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Bagillt
Ranked by languages covered: Bryn Jones with 4, then John Mills with 3 and Billy Hough with 2.
JM#2
BH#3
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Bagillt
Who is the most famous person from Bagillt?
Bryn Jones (British association football player (born 1939)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come John Mills and Billy Hough.
How many famous people were born in Bagillt?
3 people born in Bagillt have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bagillt known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 3 of the 3. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bagillt?
Billy Hough, born in 1908. The youngest on the list was born in 1939.
Who counts as from Bagillt?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bagillt’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 (4)
- John Peel: JP_BBC.jpg: Arno Matthias derivative work: January, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Pryce: Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Scanlan: Marcus Liversedge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Hunt: Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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