Photo: Alan Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people from Waungilwen
Go 12 mi to Carmarthen and the list grows to 119, with Joe Allen at the top. Llanelli has the most of any town in Dyfed: 128. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Waungilwen. Across Dyfed, 48 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Waungilwen’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Waungilwen yet.
Famous people born near Waungilwen
Nearby, Carmarthen has the most on record, with 119.
Questions about famous people from Waungilwen
Who counts as from Waungilwen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Waungilwen’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)
- Joe Allen: Steindy 16:13, 10 November 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Phoebe Davies: The New York Star, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Elwyn: Broneirion, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Gwenogvryn Evans: George Phoenix, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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