Photo: Eirian Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Pentre Halkyn is on the famous people list yet
Daniel Owen tops the 18 names on record in Mold, 6 mi away. Across Clwyd, 52 towns list someone born there. No town in Clwyd lists more than Wrexham, with 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 Pentre Halkyn’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Pentre Halkyn yet.
Famous people born near Pentre Halkyn
The longest list nearby is Mold’s, with 18.
Questions about famous people from Pentre Halkyn
Who counts as from Pentre Halkyn?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pentre Halkyn’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)
- Daniel Owen: Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Jonathan Pryce: Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Hunt: Machmit (Machmit), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Blake Pelly: Damien Parer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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