Parish Church of St. Mary · Photo: Richard Hoare · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Trefriw is on the famous people list yet
The neighbour with the longest list is Colwyn Bay, 11 mi away: 28, led by Timothy Dalton. Famous people are on record for 52 of the towns in Clwyd. The longest list in Clwyd is Wrexham’s, with 215 names. St Asaph has the second-longest list in Clwyd, after Wrexham, with 62.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Trefriw’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 3 people here, but none of their articles confirm Trefriw as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Trefriw
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Trefriw, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Trefriw
Who counts as from Trefriw?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Trefriw’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 (6)
- Timothy Dalton: Molendijk, Bart / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Neville Southall: CrackersTeam, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harold Lowe: E.J. Vanderbilt, Liverpool, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- David Ffrangcon-Davies: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kai Owen: Kirstin Tanger, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Valentine Baker: Subject's family, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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