100 Welsh Greats
Submitted by kenji on Mon, 04/04/2005 - 02:54
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- -David Lloyd George
- -Aneurin Bevan
- -Owain Glyndwr
- -Henry VII (victor at Bosworth, creator of peace and prosperity)
- -Alfred Wallace (co-originator of the theory of evolution by natural selection)
- -King Arthur
- -Llywelyn ab Iorwerth ("the great")
- -Robert Owen (pioneering cooperative socialist)
- -Dylan Thomas
- -Bertrand Russell
- -Hywel Dda (enlightened 10th century law-maker)
- -Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru, language campaigner)
- -Henry V
- -R.S.Thomas
- -Dafydd ap Gwilym (great medieval poet)
- -T.E.Lawrence
- -Tom Jones
- -Gareth Edwards
- -Richard Burton
- -Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (the last)
- -Roald Dahl
- -Saunders Lewis, (nationalist, playwright, poet)
- -Roy Jenkins
- -Bishop William Morgan (bible translator, language preserver)
- -Rhodri Mawr (9th century unifying ruler)
- -Michael Jones (pioneered Patagonian settlement)
- -Richard Price (18th century humanist writer, "apostle of liberty")
- -St Patrick (from Wales!)
- -St David
- -Princess Diana
- -Anthony Hopkins
- -Jimmy Wilde (greatest flyweight boxer)
- -Neil Kinnock
- -Henry Stanley (explorer)
- -Richard Wilson (landscape artist, influence on Turner and Constable)
- -John Charles (Soccer's gentle giant)
- -Michael Heseltine
- -Michael Howard
- -Shirley Bassey
- -Barry John (Rugby's "King")
- -David Hughes (first radio transmission, inventor of microphone, teleprinter)
- -Gwen John
- -Kate Roberts (novelist)
- -Henry Morgan (pirate)
- -William Grove (19th century scientist; first fuel cell)
- -George Herbert (17th century poet)
- -Tanni Grey-Thompson (disabled athlete)
- -Bryn Terfel (opera singer)
- -Catherine Zeta Jones
- -Archbishop Rowan Williams
- -Boadicea
- -Caractacus
- -John Prescott
- -John Frost
- -Brian Josephson (Nobel-winning scientist)
- -Geoffrey Howe
- -Betsi Cadwaladr (Crimean nurse who did more practical good than Florence Nightingale)
- -Kyffin Williams (artist)
- -Robert Recorde (mathematician, = sign)
- -Charles Rolls (Rolls-Royce)
- -Iolo Morgannwg
- -Dr William Price (radical 19th century Republican and feminist free-thinker, advocate of prevention not cure)
- -Evan Williams (scientist, discovered Meson particle)
- -Manic Street Preachers
- -Donald Davies (internet pioneer)
- -Evan Roberts
- -Ron Davies
- -John Dee (Elizabethan tutor, astronomer, mathematician, magician, spy)
- -Thomas Jones (original 18th century Radnorshire artist)
- -Martin Amis (?: writer, raised in Wales, birthplace unclear)
- -Owain Gwynedd
- -Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd ap Cynan (warrior princess, possible author of Mabinogi)
- -Rhodri Morgan
- -Owain Lawgoch
- -David Davies (19th century magnate)
- -William Williams (hymn writer)
- -John Nash (architect)
- -Howell Harris
- -Bart Roberts (pirate)
- -Clough Williams-Ellis (Portmeirion artchitect)
- -Clive Granger (Nobel-winning economist)
- -Waldo Williams (Welsh language poet)
- -W.H.Davies
- -Griffith Jones
- -Giraldus Cambrensis
- -Henry Vaughan
- -Sarah Siddons (famous 18th century actress)
- -Ian Rush
- -Terry Matthews (business billionaire)
- -Thomas Picton
- -Jemima Nicholas (heroine who captured French troops invading Fishguard in 1797)
- -Stereophonics
- -Stephen Jones (Geneticist)
- -David Jones (poet, artist)
- -Laura Ashley
- -Colin Jackson
- -John Cale
- -Billy Meredith (greatest pre-WW2 British Soccer player)
- -Tommy Cooper (comedian)
- -Karl Jenkins (composer)
Obviously some will be better known in Wales + Britain than the rest of the world.
Some famous names of Welsh parentage:
Thomas Jefferson
Frank Lloyd Wright
Oliver Cromwell
George Eliot
Daniel Boone
Kylie Minogue
Bob Hope
D.W.Griffith
William Cecil
Mary Quant
Rolf Harris
Naomi Watts
Susan Sarandon
Tom Cruise
Charlie Chaplin
Kevin Spacey
Bette Davis
Russell Crowe
Garibaldi
John Donne
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bobby Jones
William Penn
Elihu Yale
Jesse James
William Wallace
Gore Vidal
Al Gore
Hilary Clinton