#1Famous people · Mold, Clwyd
18 famous people from Mold, many of them writers and artists
Most widely known is Daniel Owen, the Welsh novelist, with articles in 14 languages. The badminton player Daniel Font ranks second, ahead of Jane Brereton. In the 20th century, 6 were born, the most of any period. Fewer than a quarter of the 52 towns in Clwyd with famous people list more.
Born here
18
notable people
Best known
Daniel Owen
in 14 Wikipedia languages
First
1685
Jane Brereton
Youngest
1993
Daniel Font
Most common field
Sports
9 people
What stands out about Mold’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Mold is known for
Set against the usual town, writers and artists come out 2.4 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 Mold
Two of the three are writers and artists.
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Writing & Arts
Jane Brereton
1685–1740Welsh writer (b. Flintshire 1685)
6 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Through the years
When Mold’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1930s, with 2 people born in that decade.
SportsWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawFilm, TV & StageBusiness
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mold
Here are 15 more, born from 1802 to 1985.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Hawarden counts 15 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Mold
Who is the most famous person from Mold?
Daniel Owen (Welsh novelist (1836–1895)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 14 languages. Next come Daniel Font and Jane Brereton.
How many famous people were born in Mold?
18 people born in Mold have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 24 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Mold known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 9 of the 18. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mold?
Jane Brereton, born in 1685. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Mold?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mold’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)
- Daniel Owen: Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Siân Gibson: Hmcst1, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gary Speed: Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0, 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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