Photo: Anthony Parkes · CC BY-SA 2.0Parcllyn has yet to put a famous person on the list
Phoebe Davies tops the 15 names on record in Cardigan, 5 mi away. The longest list of any town in Dyfed belongs to Llanelli, with 128. After Llanelli, the next longest list in Dyfed is Carmarthen’s, with 119. Famous people are on record for 48 of the towns in Dyfed.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Parcllyn’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Parcllyn yet.
Famous people born near Parcllyn
Of the towns nearby, 4 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Parcllyn
Who counts as from Parcllyn?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Parcllyn’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 (3)
- Phoebe Davies: The New York Star, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Josiah Towyn Jones: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Elwyn: Broneirion, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.