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Gary Speed
1969–2011Welsh association football player and manager (1969–2011)
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Famous people · Hawarden, Clwyd
15 famous people from Hawarden, many of them athletes
Most widely known is Gary Speed, the Welsh association football player and manager, with articles in 46 languages. Second place goes to the Welsh footballer Kevin Ratcliffe, third to Marc Limbert. The largest group, 10, was born in the 20th century. Philip Rodgers, born in 1891, is the earliest name and Beverley Jones, born in 1974, the latest.
Born here
15
notable people
Best known
Gary Speed
in 46 Wikipedia languages
First
1891
Philip Rodgers
Youngest
1974
Beverley Jones
Most common field
Sports
14 people
What stands out about Hawarden’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Hawarden’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1960s than in any other decade: 5.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Hawarden is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.9 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Hawarden
By how many languages cover them, Gary Speed comes first (46), then Kevin Ratcliffe (14) and Marc Limbert (6).
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Everyone else born in Hawarden
Another 12, 11 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Connah's Quay’s, with 11.
Questions about famous people from Hawarden
Who is the most famous person from Hawarden?
Gary Speed (Welsh association football player and manager (1969–2011)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 46 languages. Next come Kevin Ratcliffe and Marc Limbert.
How many famous people were born in Hawarden?
15 people born in Hawarden have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Hawarden known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 14 of the 15. That is 93% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Hawarden?
Philip Rodgers, born in 1891. The youngest on the list was born in 1974.
Who counts as from Hawarden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Hawarden’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)
- Gary Speed: Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marc Limbert: Tomoslewisbangor, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blake Pelly: Damien Parer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Allen: Benutzer:Bill da Flute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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