#1Famous people · Y Bala, Gwynedd
4 famous people call Y Bala their birthplace
At the top of the list is the British actor Christopher Timothy, covered in 8 languages. Second place goes to the Welsh cricketer Gwynn Evans, third to Jack Evans. More are athletes than anything else, 2 in all. The first birth on record is Richard John Lloyd Price’s, in 1843, and the last Christopher Timothy’s, in 1940.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Christopher Timothy
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1843
Richard John Lloyd Price
Youngest
1940
Christopher Timothy
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Y Bala
Two of the three are athletes.
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Sports
Jack Evans
1889–1971Welsh association football player (1889-1971)
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Through the years
When Y Bala’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1940s than in any other decade: 1.
SportsFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Y Bala 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.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Y Bala
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from Y Bala
Who is the most famous person from Y Bala?
Christopher Timothy (British actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Gwynn Evans and Jack Evans.
How many famous people were born in Y Bala?
4 people born in Y Bala have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 12 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Y Bala known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Y Bala?
Richard John Lloyd Price, born in 1843. The youngest on the list was born in 1940.
Who counts as from Y Bala?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Y Bala’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 (1)
- Christopher Timothy: alh1, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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