Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0Gwersyllt has yet to put a famous person on the list
Just 2 mi away, Wrexham’s list holds 215 names, Danny Ward the best known. Wrexham’s 215 names make the longest list in Clwyd. After Wrexham, the next longest list in Clwyd is St Asaph’s, with 62. Famous people are on record for 52 of the towns in Clwyd.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gwersyllt’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 Gwersyllt as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Gwersyllt
Wrexham leads the towns around it, with 215 names.
Wrexham · 2 miDanny Ward & 214 more
Rhosllannerchrugog · 5 miMark Lewis Jones & 18 more
Rossett · 4 miChris Wickham & 6 more
Brynteg · 1 miGeoff Charles & 4 moreFWHope · 3 miFrank Williams & 3 moreGDCoedpoeth · 2 miGrahame Davies & 2 moreCSRhostyllen · 3 miCliff Sear & 1 moreCSMarchwiel · 4 miCecil Smith & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Gwersyllt
Who counts as from Gwersyllt?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gwersyllt’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)
- Danny Ward: md.faisalzaman from Worcester, MA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Lewis Jones: Actor, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Wickham: Tajotep, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoff Charles: Geoff Charles, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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