Photo: andy dolman · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Clydach yet, but Abergavenny next door has 69
Famous people are on record for 42 of the towns in Gwent. Newport’s 353 names make the longest list in Gwent. After Newport, the next longest list in Gwent is Pontypool’s, with 77. The best known born in Abergavenny is Rebecca James.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Clydach’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Clydach yet.
Famous people born near Clydach
Around it, Abergavenny has the most people on record, 69 of them.
Questions about famous people from Clydach
Who counts as from Clydach?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clydach’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)
- Rebecca James: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- E. E. Clive: DVD (20th Century Fox), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Williams: Kroome111, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marina Diamandis: Daniel Åhs Karlsson, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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