Photo: David Weston · CC BY-SA 2.0No one from Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain is on the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Oswestry (7 mi) counts 50 famous people, Wilfred Owen among them. The longest list of any town in Powys belongs to Brecon, with 35. Newtown has the second-longest list in Powys, after Brecon, with 20. Famous people are on record for 20 of the towns in Powys.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain’s built-up area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain
Of the towns nearby, Oswestry lists the most people: 50.
Questions about famous people from Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain
Who counts as from Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain’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)
- Wilfred Owen: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Jones: Alaric Favier, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clement Davies: Bassano Ltd, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Roberts: Edward Villiers Rippingille (Life time: 1798–1859), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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