Photo: Crispin Purdye · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people born near Gwynfryn
Go 5 mi to Wrexham and the list grows to 215, with Danny Ward at the top. No famous person on record lists Gwynfryn as their birthplace yet. Wrexham has the most of any town in Clwyd: 215. After Wrexham, the next longest list in Clwyd is St Asaph’s, with 62.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Gwynfryn’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 Gwynfryn as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Gwynfryn
Of the towns nearby, 8 have famous names listed.
Wrexham · 5 miDanny Ward & 214 more
Rhosllannerchrugog · 5 miMark Lewis Jones & 18 more
Ruabon · 6 miWalter Clopton Wingfield & 16 more
Brynteg · 3 miGeoff Charles & 4 moreFWHope · 4 miFrank Williams & 3 moreGDCoedpoeth · 2 miGrahame Davies & 2 moreCSRhostyllen · 4 miCliff Sear & 1 moreTHLlay · 5 miTerry HennesseyQuestions about famous people from Gwynfryn
Who counts as from Gwynfryn?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gwynfryn’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
- Walter Clopton Wingfield: Unknown artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoff Charles: Geoff Charles, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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