Photo: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Begelly is on the famous people list yet
Go 4 mi to Tenby and the list grows to 21, with Robert Recorde at the top. The longest list of any town in Dyfed belongs to Llanelli, with 128. Carmarthen has the second-longest list in Dyfed, after Llanelli, with 119. 48 towns across Dyfed can name a famous person born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Begelly’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Begelly yet.
Famous people born near Begelly
The most names next door are in Tenby: 21.
Questions about famous people from Begelly
Who counts as from Begelly?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Begelly’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)
- Robert Recorde: Original painter unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry VII of England: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Wyn Calvin: Hydrafoil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rod de'Ath: Heinrich Klaffs, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Waters: Annie_C_2, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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