Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Coelbren, Pontardawe lists 16 famous people
Not one famous person on record comes from Coelbren yet. No town in Powys lists more than Brecon, with 35. Newtown has the second-longest list in Powys, after Brecon, with 20. Across Powys, 20 towns list someone born there.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Coelbren’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Coelbren yet.
Famous people born near Coelbren
Close by, Pontardawe counts 16 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Pontardawe · 9 miMary Hopkin & 15 more
Ystalyfera · 5 miClive Rowlands & 7 more
Ystradgynlais · 4 miEve Myles & 5 moreAHCilfrew · 9 miAlwyn Harris & 2 moreKHCwmllynfell and Ystradowen · 7 miKevin Hopkins & 1 moreRASeven Sisters · 3 miRichard I. Aaron
Cwmgwrach · 4 miMargaret PhillipsJWRhos · 9 miJohn WilliamsQuestions about famous people from Coelbren
Who counts as from Coelbren?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Coelbren’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 (4)
- Mary Hopkin: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Clive Rowlands: Trehywel, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eve Myles: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Phillips: TV episode screenshot (ABC), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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