Photo: Jaggery · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Ynysybwl yet, but Porth next door has 51
Merthyr Tydfil’s 136 names make the longest list in Mid Glamorgan. After Merthyr Tydfil, the next longest list in Mid Glamorgan is Bridgend’s, with 133. 36 towns in Mid Glamorgan have at least one famous person on record. The best known born in Porth is Trevor Edwards.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ynysybwl’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ynysybwl yet.
Famous people born near Ynysybwl
Of the towns around it, Porth has the most on record: 51.
Tonypandy · 4 miRhys Davies & 39 moreGHMountain Ash · 3 miGeorge Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall & 28 more
Pontypridd · 3 miStuart Burrows & 15 moreVCAbercynon · 2 miVic Crowe & 9 more
Ferndale · 4 miStanley Baker & 9 moreGSTreharris · 3 miGeorge Shaw & 4 moreFVAberfan · 4 miFrank Vining & 4 moreQuestions about famous people from Ynysybwl
Who counts as from Ynysybwl?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ynysybwl’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 (3)
- Rhys Davies: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stuart Burrows: Sain (Records) Ltd, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stanley Baker: Eli Chen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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