SH#1
Photo: El Pollock · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Shotton, Clwyd
4 famous people call Shotton their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Welsh politician Sylvia Heal, covered in 5 languages. Second and third on the list are Billy Tudor and Fred Robson. From Fred Robson to Sylvia Heal, the births on the list run from 1885 to 1942. The biggest group are athletes: 2.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Sylvia Heal
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1885
Fred Robson
Youngest
1942
Sylvia Heal
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Shotton
Two of the three are athletes.
BT#2
Sports
Billy Tudor
1918–1965British association football player (1918-1965)
4 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
FR#3
Through the years
When Shotton’s famous people were born
The busiest decade was the 1940s, with 1 births.
SportsPolitics & LawMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Shotton is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 2.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Shotton
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Shotton, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Shotton
Who is the most famous person from Shotton?
Sylvia Heal (Welsh politician (born 1942)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Billy Tudor and Fred Robson.
How many famous people were born in Shotton?
4 people born in Shotton have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Shotton known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Shotton?
Fred Robson, born in 1885. The youngest on the list was born in 1942.
Who counts as from Shotton?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Shotton’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 (3)
- 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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