Photo: Eddy Blanche · CC BY-SA 2.0No one born in Fochriw has made the famous people list yet
Nearby, Merthyr Tydfil, 4 mi away, lists 136, led by John Hughes. Across Gwent, 42 towns list someone born there. Newport has the most of any town in Gwent: 353. After Newport, the next longest list in Gwent is Pontypool’s, with 77.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Fochriw’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Fochriw yet.
Famous people born near Fochriw
Nearby, Merthyr Tydfil has the most on record, with 136.
Merthyr Tydfil · 4 miJohn Hughes & 135 more
Tredegar · 3 miAneurin Bevan & 41 moreIDRhymney · 1 miIdris Davies & 14 moreSSTroedyrhiw and Pentrebach · 3 miSteve Speirs & 10 moreAHBargod · 5 miAlun Hoddinott & 9 more
New Tredegar · 3 miDarcy Blake & 5 more
Bedlinog · 3 miCyril Walters & 4 moreFVAberfan · 4 miFrank Vining & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Fochriw
Who counts as from Fochriw?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fochriw’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)
- John Hughes: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aneurin Bevan: Howard Coster, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Darcy Blake: Biser Todorov, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cyril Walters: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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