Photo: OLU · CC BY-SA 2.0Fairbourne has no famous person on record yet
Dolgellau, 8 mi off, can claim 17 famous people, the best known Elfyn Evans. The longest list in Gwynedd is Bangor’s, with 119 names. After Bangor, the next longest list in Gwynedd is Caernarfon’s, with 36. Across Gwynedd, the lists cover 41 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Fairbourne’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Fairbourne yet.
Famous people born near Fairbourne
The longest list nearby is Dolgellau’s, with 17.
Questions about famous people from Fairbourne
Who counts as from Fairbourne?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fairbourne’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 (2)
- Elfyn Evans: Lukas Raich, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Glyn: GarethGlyn, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
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