Port Talbot
Port Talbot ranks 4,507th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Gao, Plumstead, and Caltagirone. Memorable people born in Port Talbot include Anthony Hopkins, Peg Entwistle, and Bernard Fox. Port Talbot has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians. Port Talbot is located in United Kingdom.
Port Talbot is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately eight miles from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south east of the town. It is one of the biggest steelworks in the world, but has been under threat of closure since the 1980s. The population was 31,550 in 2021, comprising about a fifth of the 141,931 population of Neath Port Talbot. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1908 and 1937, Port Talbot was the birth place of 4 globally memorable people, including Anthony Hopkins, Peg Entwistle, and Bernard Fox.
People Born in Port Talbot
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Anthony Hopkins
ACTOR
1937 - Present
HPI: 83.54
Rank: 1
Peg Entwistle
ACTOR
1908 - 1932
HPI: 54.92
Rank: 2
Bernard Fox
ACTOR
1927 - 2016
HPI: 51.65
Rank: 3
Geoffrey Howe
POLITICIAN
1926 - 2015
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 4
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Port Talbot were actors (3), and politicians (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, actors have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Port Talbot, including Anthony Hopkins, and Bernard Fox. Whereas, throughout history, actors have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Port Talbot, including Anthony Hopkins, Peg Entwistle, and Bernard Fox.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Port Talbot since 1700.
