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Famous people · Corwen, Clwyd
4 famous people call Corwen their birthplace
Articles in 8 languages make the British racing driver Hywel Lloyd the best known. Close behind are Sarah Green and Elena Puw Morgan. Born in 1900, Elena Puw Morgan is the first name on record, and Hywel Lloyd, born in 1985, the most recent. Athletes make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Hywel Lloyd
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1900
Elena Puw Morgan
Youngest
1985
Hywel Lloyd
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Corwen
Hywel Lloyd, Sarah Green and Elena Puw Morgan are written about in 8, 7 and 2 languages.
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Elena Puw Morgan
1900–1973Novelist, author of fiction and short stories for children
2 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Corwen’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1980s, with 2 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Corwen is known for
Sports leads the fields, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Corwen
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 3 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Corwen
Who is the most famous person from Corwen?
Hywel Lloyd (British racing driver) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Sarah Green and Elena Puw Morgan.
How many famous people were born in Corwen?
4 people born in Corwen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Corwen known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Corwen?
Elena Puw Morgan, born in 1900. The youngest on the list was born in 1985.
Who counts as from Corwen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Corwen’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)
- Sarah Green: ©House of Commons / Roger Harris, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Elena Puw Morgan: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Tom Pryce: Christian Sinclair, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Timothy: alh1, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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