#1Famous people · Bedlinog, Mid Glamorgan
5 famous people call Bedlinog their birthplace
Articles in 8 languages make the cricket player of England Cyril Walters the best known. The Welsh footballer Barry Watkins ranks second, ahead of Evan Edwards. In the 20th century, 3 were born, the most of any period. More are athletes than anything else, 5 in all.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Cyril Walters
in 8 Wikipedia languages
First
1898
Evan Edwards
Youngest
1984
Richard Fussell
Most common field
Sports
5 people
The best known
Born in Bedlinog
Cyril Walters, Barry Watkins and Evan Edwards are written about in 8, 4 and 4 languages.
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Through the years
When Bedlinog’s famous people were born
The 1900s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
Sports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bedlinog
Another 2, 2 of them athletes.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The fullest list close by belongs to Mountain Ash, with 29.
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New Tredegar · 3 miDarcy Blake & 5 moreFVAberfan · 2 miFrank Vining & 4 moreGSTreharris · 3 miGeorge Shaw & 4 moreJFTrelewis · 3 miJohn Frowen & 2 more
New Tredegar · 3 miDarcy Blake & 5 moreFVAberfan · 2 miFrank Vining & 4 moreGSTreharris · 3 miGeorge Shaw & 4 moreJFTrelewis · 3 miJohn Frowen & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Bedlinog
Who is the most famous person from Bedlinog?
Cyril Walters (cricket player of England. (1905-1992)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 8 languages. Next come Barry Watkins and Evan Edwards.
How many famous people were born in Bedlinog?
5 people born in Bedlinog have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Bedlinog known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 5. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bedlinog?
Evan Edwards, born in 1898. The youngest on the list was born in 1984.
Who counts as from Bedlinog?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bedlinog’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)
- Cyril Walters: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Darcy Blake: Biser Todorov, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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