Photo: Simon Atkin · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Llangors is on the famous people list yet
Just 11 mi away, Tredegar’s list holds 42 names, Aneurin Bevan the best known. The Powys lists hold names for 20 towns. No town in Powys lists more than Brecon, with 35. Newtown has the second-longest list in Powys, after Brecon, with 20.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Llangors’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Llangors yet.
Famous people born near Llangors
The best known from each town within 12 miles of Llangors, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Llangors
Who counts as from Llangors?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Llangors’ 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)
- Aneurin Bevan: Howard Coster, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sarah Siddons: Thomas Gainsborough, 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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