Photo: Monsyn · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people from Dwyran
The neighbour with the longest list is Bangor, 9 mi away: 119, led by Duffy. Across Gwynedd, the lists cover 41 towns. So far, no famous person on record was born in Dwyran. The longest list of any town in Gwynedd belongs to Bangor, with 119.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Dwyran’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 Dwyran as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Dwyran
Close by, Bangor counts 119 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Bangor · 9 miDuffy & 118 more
Caernarfon · 3 miEdward II of England & 35 moreHGLlangefni · 6 miHuw Garmon & 2 more
Penygroes · 8 miOwain Fôn Williams & 2 moreAFLlanberis · 9 miAnnie Foulkes & 2 more
Bethel · 5 miW. J. Gruffydd & 1 more
Llanrug · 6 miHugh Rowlands & 1 moreSOLlanfair Pwllgwyngyll · 7 miSiobhán OwenQuestions about famous people from Dwyran
Who counts as from Dwyran?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dwyran’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)
- Duffy: B. Erdödy, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward II of England: Founder of Oriel College, after a painting in the Bodleian Library (colour engraving) by English School (19th century), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Owain Fôn Williams: Steindy 16:18, 10 November 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- W. J. Gruffydd: Cardiff University, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Rowlands: Elliott & Fry (no individual credited), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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