Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Tycroes is on the famous people list yet
Go 5 mi to Glanaman and the list grows to 22, with John Cale at the top. The longest list in Dyfed is Llanelli’s, with 128 names. After Llanelli, the next longest list in Dyfed is Carmarthen’s, with 119. 48 towns in Dyfed have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Tycroes’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Tycroes yet.
Famous people born near Tycroes
Nearby, Glanaman has the most on record, with 22.
Questions about famous people from Tycroes
Who counts as from Tycroes?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tycroes’ 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)
- John Cale: Hreinn Gudlaugsson, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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