#1Politics & Law
Josiah Towyn Jones
1858–1925Welsh politician (1858-1925)
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Famous people · New Quay, Dyfed
New Quay is the birthplace of 4 famous people
The best known is the Welsh politician Josiah Towyn Jones, with articles in 5 languages. Dewi Emrys and Margaret Jane Gordon follow. The earliest on the list is Josiah Towyn Jones, born in 1858, and the youngest Florrie Evans, born in 1884. The longest list in Dyfed is Llanelli’s, with 128 names.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Josiah Towyn Jones
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1858
Josiah Towyn Jones
Youngest
1884
Florrie Evans
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 people
The best known
Born in New Quay
Ranked by languages covered: Josiah Towyn Jones with 5, then Dewi Emrys with 3 and Margaret Jane Gordon with 3.
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#3Through the years
When New Quay’s famous people were born
4 were born in the Victorian era, and the 1880s alone saw 3.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What New Quay is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, with 1 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in New Quay
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Aberaeron, at 5.
Questions about famous people from New Quay
Who is the most famous person from New Quay?
Josiah Towyn Jones (Welsh politician (1858-1925)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Dewi Emrys and Margaret Jane Gordon.
How many famous people were born in New Quay?
4 people born in New Quay have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is New Quay known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 9% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from New Quay?
Josiah Towyn Jones, born in 1858. The youngest on the list was born in 1884.
Who counts as from New Quay?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside New Quay’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 (4)
- Josiah Towyn Jones: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dewi Emrys: Geoff Charles, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Jane Gordon: [Australia] : C.B. & Co. : Talma, [ca. 1907], Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ron Davies: Carl Williams (Speagles), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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