#1Politics & Law
Henry V of England
1386–1422King of England from 1413 to 1422
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Famous people · Monmouth, Gwent
Henry V of England and 23 more famous people were born in Monmouth
86 languages have an article about Henry V of England. Geoffrey of Monmouth is second and Reginald Brooks-King third. With 4 leaders, the list holds 1.9 times the share found across UK towns. The list comes to 23.2 for every 10,000 residents, against 4.5 in the typical town in Gwent.
Born here
24
notable people
Best known
Henry V of England
in 86 Wikipedia languages
First
1100
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Youngest
1986
Katrina Jacks
Most common field
Writing & Arts
5 people
What stands out about Monmouth’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Monmouth
By how many languages cover them, Henry V of England comes first (86), then Geoffrey of Monmouth (68) and Reginald Brooks-King (18).
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#2Writing & Arts
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1100–1155Historian and Bishop of St Asaph, Wales (c.1095–1155)
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#3Through the years
When Monmouth’s famous people were born
The 1860s saw the most births of any decade: 3.
Writing & ArtsSportsPolitics & LawBusinessFaithMilitaryFilm, TV & StageMusicScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Monmouth is known for
Set against the usual town, business people come out 6.5 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Monmouth
21 more names, born between 1182 and 1986.
Philip Evans
1645–1679Welsh Jesuit missionary to England and Wales, Roman Catholic martyr
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George Vaughan Maddox
1802–1864Nineteenth-century British architect and builder
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Henry Foxall
1758–1823American politician, industrialist and preacher (1758–1823)
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
S.G. Courteen
1864–1945Seed merchant, founder of Courteen Seed Company in Milwaukee in 1892.
BusinessWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 7 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Monmouth
Who is the most famous person from Monmouth?
Henry V of England (king of England from 1413 to 1422) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 86 languages. Next come Geoffrey of Monmouth and Reginald Brooks-King.
How many famous people were born in Monmouth?
24 people born in Monmouth have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 36 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Monmouth known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 5 of the 24. That is 21% of the town’s list, against 12% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Monmouth?
Geoffrey of Monmouth, born in 1100. The youngest on the list was born in 1986.
Who counts as from Monmouth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Monmouth’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 (14)
- Henry V of England: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Geoffrey of Monmouth: Unknown illustrator. Per Nigel Morgan Survey, probably London, 1250 or earlier. Style of Matthew Paris, but not him., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Reginald Brooks-King: Indghx, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Evans: Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Henry Foxall: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Lawrence Davis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Tudor: Thomas Tudor, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Woodward: Lawson Speedway, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Joseph Davis: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Crofts: Thomas Crofts 1722-1781, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Cowles Prichard: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mary Howitt: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John McAfee: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Muriel Powell: Dame Muriel Powell by Godfrey Argent, bromide print, 25 November 1969 Commissioned, 1969, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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