Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Pontyates, Llanelli lists 128 famous people
Not one famous person on record comes from Pontyates yet. 48 towns across Dyfed can name a famous person born there. The longest list in Dyfed is Llanelli’s, with 128 names. Carmarthen has the second-longest list in Dyfed, after Llanelli, with 119.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Pontyates’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Pontyates yet.
Famous people born near Pontyates
The most names next door are in Llanelli: 128.
Questions about famous people from Pontyates
Who counts as from Pontyates?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pontyates’ 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 (1)
- Rachel Roberts: ABC Network, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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