#1Famous people · Newport, Dyfed
2 famous people were born in Newport
Articles in 3 languages make the Welsh academic Siwan Davies the best known. The other is Brodie Coghlan, the Welsh rugby player. A short trip away, Cardigan (9 mi) counts 15 famous people, Phoebe Davies among them. Siwan Davies, the best known, was born in 2000.
Born here
2
notable people
Best known
Siwan Davies
in 3 Wikipedia languages
First
2000
Siwan Davies
Youngest
2000
Brodie Coghlan
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 people
The best known
Born in Newport
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Known for
What Newport is known for
1 of them work in Science & Medicine, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Cardigan, with 15.
Questions about famous people from Newport
Who is the most famous person from Newport?
Siwan Davies (Welsh academic) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Brodie Coghlan.
How many famous people were born in Newport?
2 people born in Newport have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Newport known for?
Among its famous people, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 7% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Newport?
Siwan Davies, born in 2000. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Newport?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newport’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 (2)
- Siwan Davies: Copyright holder: Siwan Davies Photographer: Eivind Sundgot Oskarson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Phoebe Davies: The New York Star, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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