Photo: Philip Halling · CC BY-SA 2.0Llangattock has yet to put a famous person on the list
Nearby, Abergavenny, 6 mi away, lists 69, led by Rebecca James. No town in Powys lists more than Brecon, with 35. After Brecon, the next longest list in Powys is Newtown’s, with 20. 20 towns in Powys have at least one famous person on record.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Llangattock’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Llangattock yet.
Famous people born near Llangattock
Close by, the fullest list is Abergavenny’s, at 69 names.
Abergavenny · 6 miRebecca James & 68 more
Tredegar · 6 miAneurin Bevan & 41 more
Blaenavon · 6 miE. E. Clive & 11 moreMRBlaina · 6 miMike Ruddock & 9 moreRLCrickhowell · 1 miRoddy Llewellyn & 8 more
Brynmawr · 4 miMarina Diamandis & 5 more
Llangynidr · 4 miThomas GruffyddGBEbbw Vale · 5 miGeorge Phillips BevanQuestions about famous people from Llangattock
Who counts as from Llangattock?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Llangattock’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 (5)
- Rebecca James: Nicola, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aneurin Bevan: Howard Coster, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- E. E. Clive: DVD (20th Century Fox), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marina Diamandis: Daniel Åhs Karlsson, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Gruffydd: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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