Photo: David Purchase · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Gilwern, Abergavenny lists 69 famous people
No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in Gilwern. The Gwent lists hold names for 42 towns. The longest list in Gwent is Newport’s, with 353 names. 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 Gilwern’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Gilwern yet.
Famous people born near Gilwern
Of the towns nearby, Abergavenny lists the most people: 69.
Abergavenny · 3 miRebecca James & 68 more
Blaenavon · 4 miE. E. Clive & 11 moreMRBlaina · 5 miMike Ruddock & 9 moreRLCrickhowell · 3 miRoddy Llewellyn & 8 more
Abersychan · 7 miRoy Jenkins & 8 more
Brynmawr · 4 miMarina Diamandis & 5 moreGBEbbw Vale · 6 miGeorge Phillips Bevan
Llangynidr · 7 miThomas GruffyddQuestions about famous people from Gilwern
Who counts as from Gilwern?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Gilwern’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 (5)
- Rebecca James: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- E. E. Clive: DVD (20th Century Fox), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy Jenkins: Jean-Louis Debaize, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Marina Diamandis: Daniel Åhs Karlsson, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Gruffydd: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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