Photo: Keith Williamson · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person yet from Benllech
The nearest list is in Bangor, 8 mi away: 119 names, starting with Duffy. 41 towns in Gwynedd have at least one famous person on record. Bangor has the most of any town in Gwynedd: 119. After Bangor, the next longest list in Gwynedd is Caernarfon’s, with 36.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Benllech’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Benllech as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Benllech
Close by, Bangor counts 119 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Benllech
Who counts as from Benllech?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Benllech’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)
- Duffy: B. Erdödy, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neil Sloane: Laine Whitcomb, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Whitfield: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- W. J. Gruffydd: Cardiff University, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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