Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Pentraeth has yet to put a famous person on the list
41 towns in Gwynedd have at least one famous person on record. Just 5 mi away, Bangor’s list holds 119 names, Duffy the best known. No town in Gwynedd lists more than 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 Pentraeth’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 Pentraeth as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Pentraeth
Around it, Bangor has the most people on record, 119 of them.
Questions about famous people from Pentraeth
Who counts as from Pentraeth?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pentraeth’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
- 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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