#1Business
Robert Owen
1771–1858Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)
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Famous people · Newtown, Powys
Newtown, birthplace of Robert Owen and 19 more famous people
80 languages have an article about the Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer Robert Owen. Carrie Jones, the Welsh association football player, comes second, with George Latham third. Leaders are unusually common here: 4, 2.3 times the usual share. In the Victorian era, 9 were born, the most of any period.
Born here
20
notable people
Best known
Robert Owen
in 80 Wikipedia languages
First
1771
Robert Owen
Youngest
2003
Carrie Jones
Most common field
Sports
13 people
What stands out about Newtown’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Newtown
Athletes take two of the three places.
#1CJ#2
Sports
Carrie Jones
born 2003Welsh association football player (born 2003)
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#3Known for
What Newtown is known for
Compared with the usual town, leaders are the most over-represented field, at 2.3 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed across UK towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Newtown’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1870s come out on top, with 3 births.
SportsPolitics & LawBusinessWriting & ArtsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Newtown
Still to come: 17 more, from 1824 to 1998.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Llanidloes, at 12.
Questions about famous people from Newtown
Who is the most famous person from Newtown?
Robert Owen (Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer (1771–1858)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 80 languages. Next come Carrie Jones and George Latham.
How many famous people were born in Newtown?
20 people born in Newtown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 25 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Newtown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 13 of the 20. That is 65% of the town’s list, against 49% across UK towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Newtown?
Robert Owen, born in 1771. The youngest on the list was born in 2003.
Who counts as from Newtown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Newtown’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 (8)
- Robert Owen: William Henry Brooke, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George Latham: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Beadles: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pryce Pryce-Jones: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Norton: Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Trow: William James Topley, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Cecil Day: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 11 June 1925, page 50 - photographer unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Gwyn: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
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