Celebrate your Welsh heritage

Rhode Island Welsh Society

Famous Welsh People

 

Welsh Wall of Fame A selection of famous Welsh people

Qualification: At least great-grandparent or closer born in Wales

  Sir Richard Burton – actor, born

  Hillary Clinton – US Secretary of State, great-grandparents

  Roald Dahl – author, born

  Timothy Dalton – actor, born

  Dave Evans (a.k.a. The Edge) – rocker, parents

  Sir George Everest – surveyor, born

  Stonehenge  - stones, born

  Sir Bob Hope – actor/comedian, mother

  Sir Anthony Hopkins – actor, born

  Catherine Zeta Jones – actor, born

  Sir Tom Jones – singer/actor, born

  T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) – British/Arab liaison , born

  Henry Morgan – pirate, born

  Robert Recorde – invented equal sign, born

  Henry VIII – king, great-grandfather

  Dylan Thomas – poet, born

  Frank Lloyd Wright – architect, grandparents

  John Cale – musician, born

  Russell Crowe – actor, grandfather

  Naomi Watts – actor, grandfather

  Terry Jones – actor/comedian, born

  Sasha Baron Cohen - actor/comedian, father

  Dame Shirley Bassey – singer, born

  Daniel Boone – American frontiersman, grandfather

 

 

 

Wales is the birthplace of many talented people with wonderful achievements to their names...