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The People within this list are usually native to the country however sometimes we may have included those that have either lived within the country for most of their adult life or have made a significant contribution to the country in their personal endeavours.
Famous Welsh People are in the following Categories
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| Architects | |
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| Jonathan Adams | William Edwards |
| Alwyn Sheppard Fidler | John St. Bodfan Gruffydd |
| Inigo Jones | John Nash |
| Owen Jones | John Jones |
| Ernest Morgan | Malcolm Parry |
| John Prichard | Gwynne Pugh |
| David Wyn Roberts | Percy Thomas |
| Revd. Thomas Thomas | E. M. Bruce Vaughan |
| Clough Williams-Ellis | |
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| Designers | |
|---|---|
| Laura Ashley | Jeff Banks |
| David Emanuel | Timothy Everest |
| Ross Lovegrove | Julien Macdonald |
| Tommy Nutter | Jayne Pierson |
| Mary Quant | |
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| Film directors | |
|---|---|
| Kevin Allen | Gareth Evans |
| John Evans | Peter Greenaway |
| Marc Evans | Justin Kerrigan |
| Terry Jones | Richard Marquand |
| Julian Richards | Sara Sugarman |
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| Humourists | |
|---|---|
| Bennett Arron | Max Boyce |
| Tommy Cooper | Lee Dainton |
| Rhod Gilbert | Ryan Davies |
| Gladys Morgan | Ruth Jones |
| Tessie O’Shea | Terry Jones |
| Griff Rhys Jones | Harry Secombe |
| Matthew Pritchard | Paul Whitehouse |
| Ronnie Williams | |
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| Journalists and broadcasters | |
|---|---|
| Mario Basini | Jeremy Bowen |
| James Gomer Berry | Derek Brockway |
| William Berry | Toby Charles |
| Grace Coddington | Josie d’Arby |
| Hugh Cudlipp | Russell Davies |
| Sara Edwards | Huw Edwards |
| Arfon Haines Davies | Dewi Griffiths |
| Guto Harri | John Humphrys |
| Ciaran Jenkins | Gareth Jones |
| Gareth Jones | Gethin Jones |
| Karl Jones | Steve Jones |
| Martyn Lewis | Sian Lloyd |
| Siân Lloyd | Johnny Morris |
| Mavis Nicholson | Jamie Owen |
| Allison Pearson | Keidrych Rhys |
| Huw Wheldon | Wynford Vaughan-Thomas |
| Lucy Owen | Siân Williams |
| Iolo Williams | |
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| Models | |
|---|---|
| Sian Adey-Jones | Rosemarie Frankland |
| Kim Ashfield | Claire Evans |
| Amy Guy | Chloe-Beth Morgan |
| Helen Morgan | Sophie Moulds |
| Kate Alicia Morgan | Kelly-Louise Pesticcio |
| Imogen Thomas | |
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| Philanthropists | |
|---|---|
| Gwendoline Davies | Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover |
| Margaret Davies | Edmund Meyrick |
| Albert Gubay | Hugh Owen |
| Robert Owen | Eliezer Pugh |
| Thomas Phillips | Edwin Stevens |
| Maria Jane Williams | John Wynne |
| Elihu Yale | |
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| Scientists | |
|---|---|
| Glyn Daniel | Donald Watts Davies |
| Hugh Davies | Huw Dixon |
| Lyn Evans | Herbert George |
| William Robert Grove | Gwilym Jenkins |
| Alwyn Jones | Eifion Jones |
| Emrys Jones | Steve Jones |
| Edward Lhuyd | Brian David Josephson |
| Robert Recorde | Ronald Lockley |
| Llewellyn Hilleth Thomas | Gareth Roberts |
| Phil Williams | Alfred Russel Wallace |
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| Religious figures | |
|---|---|
| Saint Cadoc | Thomas Charles |
| David Davies | Saint David |
| Christmas Evans | Saints Philip Evans |
| John Lloyd | Ann Griffiths |
| David Griffiths | Howell Harris |
| Saint Illtud | Saint Richard Gwyn |
| Bishop William Morgan | Alwyn Rice Jones |
| Evan Roberts | Thomas Richards |
| Reverend John Davies | John Roberts |
| Daniel Rowland | William Salesbury |
| Rowan Williams | William Williams Pantycelyn |
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| Artists | |
|---|---|
| Iwan Bala | Thomas Nathaniel Davies |
| Roger Cecil | Ken Elias |
| Glenys Cour | Nick Evans |
| Ivor Davies | Barry Flanagan |
| David Garner | Laura Ford |
| John Gibson | Tony Goble |
| Lee Hadwin | Robert Alwyn Hughes |
| Nina Hamnett | Clive Hicks-Jenkins |
| Alfred Janes | Augustus John |
| Goscombe John | David Jones |
| Gwen John | Martyn Jones |
| Thomas Jones | Heinz Koppel |
| Mervyn Levy | Osi Rhys Osmond |
| Geoffrey Olsen | Michael Gustavius Payne |
| Shani Rhys James | Will Roberts |
| Ceri Richards | John Uzzell Edwards |
| Andrew Vicari | Bedwyr Williams |
| Kyffin Williams | Richard Wilson |
| Nathan Wyburn | Ernest Zobole |
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| Entrepreneurs | |
|---|---|
| Richard ap Meryk | William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose |
| James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley | Joe Blackman |
| Griffith J. Griffith | John Josiah Guest |
| David Davies Llandinam | Sir William Thomas Lewis |
| John Hughes | Terry Matthews |
| Michael Moritz | Charles Stewart Rolls |
| David Sullivan | Howard Stringer |
| David Alfred Thomas | |
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| Explorers | |
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| Perce Blackborow | George Everest |
| John Evans | Henry Morton Stanley |
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| Inventors | |
|---|---|
| William Davies Evans | William Robert Grove |
| William Frost | John Jones |
| William Henry Preece | Adam Powell |
| Edwin Stevens | Thomas Williams of Llanidan |
| Walter Clopton Wingfield | |
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| Military | |
|---|---|
| Morys Bruce | Malcolm Douglas-Pennant |
| Rhys ap Thomas | Ellis Humphrey Evans |
| Hugh Evan-Thomas | William Charles Fuller |
| Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel | Owain Lawgoch |
| T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) | Hubert William Lewis |
| Sir Thomas Picton | John Wallace Linton |
| Simon Weston | Tasker Watkins |
| Roger Williams | John Williams |
| Robert James Bye | |
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| Monarchs | |
|---|---|
| Cadwallon ap Cadfan | Cunedda |
| Dafydd ap Gruffudd | Idwal Iwrch ap Cadwaladr |
| Gruffudd ap Cynan | Gwenllian of Wales |
| Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd | Henry VII of England |
| Hywel Dda | Llywelyn the Great |
| Llyw Olaf | Llywelyn ap Gruffudd |
| Maelgwn Gwynedd | Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor |
| Owain Gwynedd | Rhodri Mawr |
| The Lord Rhys | Gwynedd |
| Owain Glyndŵr | |
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| Philosophers | |
|---|---|
| Richard Ithamar Aaron | David James Jones |
| Martyn Evans | Henry Jones |
| David James Jones | John Robert Jones |
| Hywel Lewis | Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen |
| John Lewis | Griffith Powell |
| Dewi Zephaniah Phillips | John Cowper Powys |
| Richard Price | H. H. Price |
| Bertrand Russell | Mark Rowlands |
| David Williams | David Oswald Thomas |
| Thomas Vaughan | Rheinallt Nantlais Williams |
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| Sports people | |
|---|---|
| Jim Alford | Steve Barry |
| Jamie Baulch | Neil Winter |
| J.J. Williams | Rhys Williams |
| Cecil Griffiths | Carys Parry |
| Richard Vaughan | Robert Mitchell |
| Martyn Lewis | Peter Morris |
| Ted Lewis | George Whitcombe |
| Robert Weale | Fred Parfitt |
| Lee Selby | Howard Winstone |
| Tom Thomas | Dai Dower |
| Nathan Cleverly | Steve Robinson |
| John Toshack | Terry Yorath |
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