Photo: Llywelyn2000 · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people from Llangoed
Just 5 mi away, Bangor’s list holds 119 names, Duffy the best known. So far, no famous person on record was born in Llangoed. The longest list of any town in Gwynedd belongs to Bangor, with 119. Caernarfon has the second-longest list in Gwynedd, after Bangor, with 36.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Llangoed’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Llangoed yet.
Famous people born near Llangoed
Of the towns nearby, 5 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Llangoed
Who counts as from Llangoed?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Llangoed’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
- David Ffrangcon-Davies: Daniel Rees, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Valentine Baker: Subject's family, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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