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Photo: John S Turner · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Broughton, Clwyd
2 famous people call Broughton their birthplace
At the top of the list is the footballer Dennis Selby, covered in 3 languages. The list has one more: the harpist and teacher Frances Môn Jones. Daniel Craig tops the 296 names on record in Chester, 4 mi away. Over 1 years of births, the list goes from Frances Môn Jones (1919) to Dennis Selby (1920).
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Dennis Selby
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
1919
Frances Môn Jones
Youngest
1920
Dennis Selby
Most common field
Sports
1 people
The best known
Born in Broughton
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Known for
What Broughton is known for
Share of Broughton’s famous people in each field.
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
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Broughton
Who is the most famous person from Broughton?
Dennis Selby (footballer (1920-1969)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Frances Môn Jones.
How many famous people were born in Broughton?
2 people born in Broughton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Broughton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Broughton?
Frances Môn Jones, born in 1919. The youngest on the list was born in 1920.
Who counts as from Broughton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Broughton’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)
- Daniel Craig: Max Surprenant, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Speed: Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blake Pelly: Damien Parer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Wickham: Tajotep, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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