#1Famous people · Pencoed, Mid Glamorgan
5 famous people were born in Pencoed
Articles in 6 languages make the Welsh musician and comedian Stan Stennett the best known. Close behind are Paul Amos and Chris Dicomidis. For its size the list is short: 5.5 for every 10,000 residents, against 9.8 in the typical Mid Glamorgan town. From Stan Stennett to Paul Amos, the births on the list run from 1925 to 2000.
Born here
5
notable people
Best known
Stan Stennett
in 6 Wikipedia languages
First
1925
Stan Stennett
Youngest
2000
Paul Amos
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Pencoed
Stan Stennett, Paul Amos and Chris Dicomidis are written about in 6, 4 and 3 languages.
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Through the years
When Pencoed’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1920s than in any other decade: 1.
SportsMusicFilm, TV & StagePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Pencoed 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 Pencoed
2 more, best known first.
Paul Morgan
1974–2015Welsh rugby union footballer and coach, rugby league footballer, and cricketer
SportsWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Nearby, Bridgend has the most on record, with 133.
Questions about famous people from Pencoed
Who is the most famous person from Pencoed?
Stan Stennett (Welsh musician and comedian (1925-2013)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Paul Amos and Chris Dicomidis.
How many famous people were born in Pencoed?
5 people born in Pencoed have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Pencoed known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 5. That is 40% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Pencoed?
Stan Stennett, born in 1925. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Pencoed?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pencoed’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 (9)
- Stan Stennett: Watt Dabney, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Amos: Super Festivals, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Luke Fletcher: Senedd Cymru - Welsh Parliament, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Tuck: Andreas Lawen, Fotandi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Cadogan: Mezzotint by William Dickinson, 1772, after Robert Edge Pine, 1769, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Thomas: David Cameron and Gareth Thomas.jpg: ukhomeoffice derivative work: User:Tsange, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Rees: National Assembly for Wales from Wales, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Price: Benjamin West, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Katie Wallis: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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