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Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Bangor-on-Dee, Clwyd
2 famous people call Bangor-on-Dee their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Welsh actor Tim Wylton, covered in 7 languages. The only other name is the association football player Brian Jarvis. Over 7 years of births, the list goes from Brian Jarvis (1933) to Tim Wylton (1940). For more famous names, Wrexham is 4 mi away: its list has 215, led by Danny Ward.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Tim Wylton
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1933
Brian Jarvis
Youngest
1940
Tim Wylton
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 people
The best known
Born in Bangor-on-Dee
BJ#2
Known for
What Bangor-on-Dee is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 1 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Wrexham: 215.
Wrexham · 4 miDanny Ward & 214 more
Rhosllannerchrugog · 6 miMark Lewis Jones & 18 more
Ruabon · 5 miWalter Clopton Wingfield & 16 more
Malpas · 6 miGeorge Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley & 3 moreCSMarchwiel · 3 miCecil Smith & 1 more
Holt · 5 miLeigh Richmond Roose & 1 moreCSRhostyllen · 5 miCliff Sear & 1 more
Farndon · 6 miJohn SpeedQuestions about famous people from Bangor-on-Dee
Who is the most famous person from Bangor-on-Dee?
Tim Wylton (Welsh actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Brian Jarvis.
How many famous people were born in Bangor-on-Dee?
2 people born in Bangor-on-Dee have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bangor-on-Dee known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bangor-on-Dee?
Brian Jarvis, born in 1933. The youngest on the list was born in 1940.
Who counts as from Bangor-on-Dee?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bangor-on-Dee’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 (6)
- Danny Ward: md.faisalzaman from Worcester, MA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Lewis Jones: Actor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Walter Clopton Wingfield: Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Cholmondeley, 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Leigh Richmond Roose: UnknownUnknown (uncredited by source) The original uploader was Mikedash at English Wikipedia., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Speed: Salomon Savery, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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