Photo: Dot Potter · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Gwespyr, St Asaph lists 62 famous people
No famous person on record lists Gwespyr as their birthplace yet. Wrexham’s 215 names make the longest list in Clwyd. The Clwyd lists hold names for 52 towns. The best known born in St Asaph is Ian Rush.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gwespyr’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 Gwespyr as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Gwespyr
Of the towns around it, St Asaph has the most on record: 62.
St Asaph · 7 miIan Rush & 61 moreJPPrestatyn · 3 miJohn Prescott & 22 morePMRhyl · 6 miPenelope Mortimer & 22 more
Hoylake · 8 miChris Boardman & 18 more
Holywell · 6 miJonathan Pryce & 16 more
West Kirby · 7 miJoanna Scanlan & 16 more
Rhuddlan · 6 miPhilip Jones Griffiths & 6 more
Dyserth · 4 miJohn Houghton & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Gwespyr
Who counts as from Gwespyr?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gwespyr’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 (6)
- Ian Rush: AceKindred, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Boardman: Cs-wolves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Pryce: Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joanna Scanlan: Marcus Liversedge, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Jones Griffiths: Original uploader was Cantikfotos at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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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