Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person born in Cynwyd is listed yet
Just 11 mi away, Ruthin’s list holds 15 names, Tom Pryce the best known. The longest list of any town in Clwyd belongs to Wrexham, with 215. After Wrexham, the next longest list in Clwyd is St Asaph’s, with 62. The Clwyd lists hold names for 52 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Cynwyd’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Cynwyd as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Cynwyd
Close by, the fullest list is Ruthin’s, at 15 names.
Questions about famous people from Cynwyd
Who counts as from Cynwyd?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Cynwyd’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 (2)
- Tom Pryce: Christian Sinclair, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christopher Timothy: alh1, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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