#1Famous people · Bodelwyddan, Clwyd
7 famous people were born in Bodelwyddan, more of them athletes than in most towns
Jade Jones, the British taekwondo practitioner, is the most widely known, written about in 24 languages. The Welsh association footballer Dylan Levitt ranks second, ahead of Philip Salt. Most were born since 1970: 7 of them. The earliest on the list is Jade Jones, born in 1993, and the youngest Charlie Caton, born in 2002.
Born here
7
notable people
Best known
Jade Jones
in 24 Wikipedia languages
First
1993
Jade Jones
Youngest
2002
Charlie Caton
Most common field
Sports
7 people
What stands out about Bodelwyddan’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Bodelwyddan’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1990s than in any other ten years, 4 in all.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Bodelwyddan
The three best known are all athletes.
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Everyone else born in Bodelwyddan
4 more, 4 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is St Asaph’s, with 62.
St Asaph · 3 miIan Rush & 61 more
Denbigh · 7 miHenry Morton Stanley & 23 morePMRhyl · 4 miPenelope Mortimer & 22 moreJPPrestatyn · 6 miJohn Prescott & 22 more
Rhuddlan · 2 miPhilip Jones Griffiths & 6 more
Abergele · 3 miDavid Vaughan & 3 more
Dyserth · 4 miJohn Houghton & 2 moreJSKinmel Bay · 2 miJimmy Sangster & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Bodelwyddan
Who is the most famous person from Bodelwyddan?
Jade Jones (British taekwondo practitioner) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 24 languages. Next come Dylan Levitt and Philip Salt.
How many famous people were born in Bodelwyddan?
7 people born in Bodelwyddan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bodelwyddan known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 7 of the 7. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bodelwyddan?
Jade Jones, born in 1993. The youngest on the list was born in 2002.
Who counts as from Bodelwyddan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bodelwyddan’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 (8)
- Jade Jones: Mohammad Hassanzadeh, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dylan Levitt: Kane Brooker, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Salt: Dave Morton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ian Rush: AceKindred, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Morton Stanley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Jones Griffiths: Original uploader was Cantikfotos at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Vaughan: Wonker from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Houghton: No machine-readable author provided. Kaihsu assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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