#1Sports
Darcy Blake
born 1988Welsh association football player (born 1988)
11 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Famous people · New Tredegar, Gwent
New Tredegar counts 6 famous people, first among them Darcy Blake
The best known is the Welsh association football player Darcy Blake, with articles in 11 languages. The largest group, 4, was born since 1970. 4 of them are athletes, more than in any other field. The earliest on the list is Jack Court, born in 1919, and the youngest Eliot Richards, born in 1991.
Born here
6
notable people
Best known
Darcy Blake
in 11 Wikipedia languages
First
1919
Jack Court
Youngest
1991
Eliot Richards
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about New Tredegar’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When New Tredegar’s famous people were born
The 1970s top the chart, with 2 births in the decade.
SportsPolitics & LawMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in New Tredegar
Athletes take two of the three places.
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Eliot Richards
born 1991Welsh association football player (born 1991)
6 Wikipedia languagesRead more ↗
Known for
What New Tredegar is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.4 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
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Everyone else born in New Tredegar
The other 3 span the years 1919 to 1972.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Rhymney has the longest list next door: 15.
Questions about famous people from New Tredegar
Who is the most famous person from New Tredegar?
Darcy Blake (Welsh association football player (born 1988)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 11 languages. Next come Gerald Jones and Eliot Richards.
How many famous people were born in New Tredegar?
6 people born in New Tredegar have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 7 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is New Tredegar known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 6. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from New Tredegar?
Jack Court, born in 1919. The youngest on the list was born in 1991.
Who counts as from New Tredegar?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside New Tredegar’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 (7)
- Darcy Blake: Biser Todorov, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gerald Jones: Richard Townshend, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eliot Richards: Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tim Rhys-Evans: Tomhenwil, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Williams: Kroome111, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cyril Walters: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rhodri Lloyd: http://picasaweb.google.com/barrau.gerard, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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