#1Sports
Ian Rush
born 1961Welsh association football player and manager (born 1961)
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Famous people · St Asaph, Clwyd
Musicians stand out among the 62 famous people born in St Asaph
Most widely known is Ian Rush, the Welsh association football player and manager, with articles in 53 languages. Neil Taylor and Greg Davies follow. Since 1970, 37 were born, the most of any period. The list comes to 178 for every 10,000 residents, against 6.2 in the typical town in Clwyd.
Born here
62
notable people
Best known
Ian Rush
in 53 Wikipedia languages
First
1814
G. W. Hemans
Youngest
2001
Morgan Boyes
Most common field
Sports
38 people
What stands out about St Asaph’s famous people
Still making namesBirths since 1950 number 49, the most recent in 2001.Known worldwideIan Rush has an article in 53 languages, more than anyone else from here.A town of musiciansAmong the 62 people born here, 5 are musicians: 1.6 times the usual share.62 notable peopleMore than most towns: 62 notable people were born in St Asaph.
★ What stands out · Through the years
When St Asaph’s famous people were born
The 1980s top the chart, with 18 births in the decade.
SportsFilm, TV & StageMusicScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsPolitics & LawBusinessMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in St Asaph
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1
#2Sports
Neil Taylor
born 1989Welsh association football player (born 1989)
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#3Film, TV & Stage
Greg Davies
born 1968Welsh stand-up comedian and actor
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Known for
What St Asaph is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is musicians, at 1.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in St Asaph
Another 59, 36 of them athletes.
Mark Evans
born 1985British theater and film actor, film director, folk singer, dancer and choreographer
Film, TV & StageWikipedia ↗
Gwenllian Lansdown
born 1979Welsh chief executive and former councillor (born 1979)
BusinessWikipedia ↗
Edward Barnes
?–1795Poet and translator of religious books (fl. c. 1760-1795)
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Denbigh has the longest list next door: 24.
Denbigh · 5 miHenry Morton Stanley & 23 morePMRhyl · 4 miPenelope Mortimer & 22 moreJPPrestatyn · 5 miJohn Prescott & 22 more
Rhuddlan · 3 miPhilip Jones Griffiths & 6 more
Bodelwyddan · 3 miJade Jones & 6 more
Abergele · 6 miDavid Vaughan & 3 more
Dyserth · 3 miJohn Houghton & 2 moreJSKinmel Bay · 4 miJimmy Sangster & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from St Asaph
Who is the most famous person from St Asaph?
Ian Rush (Welsh association football player and manager (born 1961)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 53 languages. Next come Neil Taylor and Greg Davies.
How many famous people were born in St Asaph?
62 people born in St Asaph have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 73 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is St Asaph known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 38 of the 62. That is 61% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from St Asaph?
G. W. Hemans, born in 1814. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from St Asaph?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside St Asaph’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 (24)
- Ian Rush: AceKindred, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neil Taylor: Ronnie Macdonald, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Greg Davies: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Maxwell: Maxwell football, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Davies: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Webster: Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Sargeant: National Assembly For Wales / Cynulliad Cymru profile, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Williams: Jonesy702 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Becky Brewerton: Wojciech Migda (wmigda), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Antony John Williams: V. Tkachenko, AJ Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eleri Earnshaw: Hameltion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Mealor: ChoralLover, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Jones: hawken king from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Russell Morris: Duncan.Hull, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alys Williams: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eifion Lewis-Roberts: Charlie from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Garry Houston: Pvt pauline, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Davies: SeneddInsider, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Crowley-Milling: Royal Air Force official photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Morton Stanley: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Jones Griffiths: Original uploader was Cantikfotos at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jade Jones: Mohammad Hassanzadeh, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- David Vaughan: Wonker from London, United Kingdom, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Houghton: No machine-readable author provided. Kaihsu assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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