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Famous people · Llangollen, Clwyd
8 famous people call Llangollen their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the Welsh footballer Glyn James the best known. Behind the leader come Dora Herbert Jones and Samuel Jagger. Per head, the list is long: 26.2 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Clwyd has 6.2. More are athletes than anything else, 4 in all.
Born here
8
notable people
Best known
Glyn James
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1857
John Roberts
Youngest
1941
Glyn James
Most common field
Sports
4 people
The best known
Born in Llangollen
Counted by languages, Glyn James is ahead of Dora Herbert Jones and Samuel Jagger: 6, 4 and 4.
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Music
Dora Herbert Jones
1890–1974Singer and administrator (1890-1974)
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#3Through the years
When Llangollen’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1850s come out on top, with 2 births.
SportsWriting & ArtsMusicPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Llangollen is known for
Athletes are the most numerous, 4 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Llangollen
5 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Rhosllannerchrugog has the most on record, with 19.
Questions about famous people from Llangollen
Who is the most famous person from Llangollen?
Glyn James (Welsh footballer (born 1941)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Dora Herbert Jones and Samuel Jagger.
How many famous people were born in Llangollen?
8 people born in Llangollen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 13 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Llangollen known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 8. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Llangollen?
John Roberts, born in 1857. The youngest on the list was born in 1941.
Who counts as from Llangollen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Llangollen’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 (5)
- Samuel Jagger: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carys Davies: librairie mollat, CC BY 4.0, 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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