Photo: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Caer-went has made the famous people list yet
Go 4 mi to Chepstow and the list grows to 16, with Owain Yeoman at the top. Newport’s 353 names make the longest list in Gwent. After Newport, the next longest list in Gwent is Pontypool’s, with 77. Across Gwent, 42 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Caer-went’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Caer-went yet.
Famous people born near Caer-went
Of the towns nearby, Chepstow lists the most people: 16.
Questions about famous people from Caer-went
Who counts as from Caer-went?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Caer-went’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.
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