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Famous people · Burry Port, Dyfed
9 famous people were born in Burry Port, most of them since 1970
Gareth Jenkins, the Welsh rugby union footballer and coach, is the most widely known, written about in 7 languages. Only 11 of the 48 towns in Dyfed with anyone on record list more. For every 10,000 residents there are 18.1 on the list, well above the typical Dyfed town’s 6.2. Over 67 years of births, the list goes from John Geoffrey Jones (1928) to Torin Myhill (1995).
Born here
9
notable people
Best known
Gareth Jenkins
in 7 Wikipedia languages
First
1928
John Geoffrey Jones
Youngest
1995
Torin Myhill
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Burry Port’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Burry Port’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1990s, at 3.
SportsPolitics & LawMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Burry Port
By how many languages cover them, Gareth Jenkins comes first (7), then John Owen-Jones (7) and Leslie Griffiths (6).
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What Burry Port is known for
Burry Port has 3.8× the usual share of leaders.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Burry Port
6 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, Llanelli counts 128 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Burry Port
Who is the most famous person from Burry Port?
Gareth Jenkins (Welsh rugby union footballer and coach) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come John Owen-Jones and Leslie Griffiths.
How many famous people were born in Burry Port?
9 people born in Burry Port have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Burry Port known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 9. That is 56% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Burry Port?
John Geoffrey Jones, born in 1928. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Burry Port?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Burry Port’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)
- John Owen-Jones: Sain (Records) Ltd, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leslie Griffiths: Jwslubbock, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kirby Myhill: Stefano Delfrate, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Roberts: ABC Network, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Evan Roberts: オリーブの油搾りのゲッセマネ, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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