#1Famous people · Pyle, Mid Glamorgan
4 famous people were born in Pyle
At the top of the list is the British actor Garnon Davies, covered in 5 languages. Second place goes to the Welsh rugby union player Clive Shell, third to Brian Bluck. For its size the list is short: 2.8 for every 10,000 residents, against 9.8 in the typical Mid Glamorgan town. Births span 1901 to 1982, from David Morgan Jenkins to Garnon Davies.
Born here
4
notable people
Best known
Garnon Davies
in 5 Wikipedia languages
First
1901
David Morgan Jenkins
Youngest
1982
Garnon Davies
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Pyle
First, Garnon Davies (5 languages), then Clive Shell (2) and Brian Bluck (1).
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#3Through the years
When Pyle’s famous people were born
The 1980s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
SportsFilm, TV & StageScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Pyle is known for
2 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Pyle
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Bridgend leads the towns around it, with 133 names.
Questions about famous people from Pyle
Who is the most famous person from Pyle?
Garnon Davies (British actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Clive Shell and Brian Bluck.
How many famous people were born in Pyle?
4 people born in Pyle have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Pyle 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 Pyle?
David Morgan Jenkins, born in 1901. The youngest on the list was born in 1982.
Who counts as from Pyle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Pyle’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 (7)
- Garnon Davies: Ian Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brian Bluck: Ebluck, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Matthew Tuck: Andreas Lawen, Fotandi, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dic Penderyn: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Gareth Thomas: David Cameron and Gareth Thomas.jpg: ukhomeoffice derivative work: User:Tsange, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Katie Wallis: David Woolfall, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Price: Benjamin West, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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