#1Sports
Owain Fôn Williams
born 1987Welsh association football player (born 1987)
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Famous people · Penygroes, Gwynedd
Penygroes counts 3 famous people, first among them Owain Fôn Williams
Owain Fôn Williams, the Welsh association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 26 languages. Second place goes to the association football player Bill Pendergast, third to Gareth Thomas. The neighbour with the longest list is Caernarfon, 6 mi away: 36, led by Edward II of England. From Bill Pendergast to Owain Fôn Williams, the births on the list run from 1915 to 1987.
Born here
3
notable people
Best known
Owain Fôn Williams
in 26 Wikipedia languages
First
1915
Bill Pendergast
Youngest
1987
Owain Fôn Williams
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Penygroes
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1BP#2
Sports
Bill Pendergast
1915–2001Association football player (1915-2001)
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#3Known for
What Penygroes is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Caernarfon’s, with 36.
Questions about famous people from Penygroes
Who is the most famous person from Penygroes?
Owain Fôn Williams (Welsh association football player (born 1987)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 26 languages. Next come Bill Pendergast and Gareth Thomas.
How many famous people were born in Penygroes?
3 people born in Penygroes have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Penygroes known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Penygroes?
Bill Pendergast, born in 1915. The youngest on the list was born in 1987.
Who counts as from Penygroes?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Penygroes’ 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 (6)
- Owain Fôn Williams: Steindy 16:18, 10 November 2016 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Thomas: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Hugh Rowlands: Elliott & Fry (no individual credited), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- W. J. Gruffydd: Cardiff University, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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