- David Jones
David Ian Jones (born 22 March 1952), is a Conservative politician. He is Member of Parliament (MP) for Clwyd West. - Joey Jones
Joseph Patrick "Joey" Jones (born March 4 1955 in Llandudno, North Wales) is a former professional football full-back who played for Liverpool in the season they chased the "The Treble". - Rhodri Glyn Thomas
Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM (born 1953, Wrexham, Denbighshire, North Wales) is a Welsh politician. He has been the Plaid Cymru National Assembly for Wales Member for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr since 1999. - Eleanor Burnham
Eleanor Burnham is a Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, and Member of the Welsh Assembly for the North Wales regional constituency. Eleanor was born in Wrexham and brought up in Gwnodl Fawr, Cynwyd. Her early career was in Social Services Management. She was previously a Wrexham Magistrate and a member of Denbigh Hospital Mental Health Tribunal. Her political interests lie in full devolution for Wales, social inclusion and lifelong-learning. - Janet Ryder
Janet Ryder (born in Sunderland, 1955) is a Welsh politician. She has been a Plaid Cymru member of the National Assembly for Wales for North Wales since 1999. She moved with her family to Wales in 1990 and has since learnt Welsh. - Mark Isherwood
Mark Isherwood, born 1959, is a Conservative member of the National Assembly for Wales for the region of North Wales. He is the son of Liberal Democrat politician Rodney Isherwood. - Brynle Williams
Brynle Williams born in Cilcain, North Wales, in 1949, is a member of the National Assembly for Wales in the North Wales region for the Welsh Conservative Party. He was first elected to the Assembly on May 1 2003. He made his name during the importing of beef to Holyhead, Wales and the UK fuel protests in 2000. - Beuno
Saint Beuno (died 640) was a 7th century Welsh holy man and Abbot of Clynnog Fawr in Caernarfonshire. Beuno was born in Powys, supposedly at Berriew, the grandson of a prince of that realm. After education and ordination in the monastery of Bangor-on-Dee in North Wales, he became an active missionary, Cadfan, King of Gwynedd, being his generous benefactor. Cadwallon, Cadfan's son and successor, deceived Beuno about some land and, when the saint demanding justice, … - David Crystal
Professor David Crystal, OBE (born 1941 in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, UK) is a linguist, academic and author. He grew up in Holyhead, North Wales, and Liverpool, England where he attended St Mary's College from 1951. He grew up bilingual in Welsh and English, which influenced his approach to language education. Crystal studied English at University College London between 1959 and 1962. He was a researcher under Randolph Quirk between 1962 and 1963, … - Mike Peters
Mike Peters (born February 25, 1959), is a Welsh musician, best known as the frontman of The Alarm. Mike is currently living in Dyserth, in North Wales. Peters was born in Prestatyn, North Wales (where The Alarm played their first gig in 1981). He began his musical career with amateur bands in the mid 1970s, and was greatly influenced by the punk rock and new wave music of the time. In 1991, The Alarm split up after a few hits, the best-known of which was "68 Guns". - Deiniol
Saint Deiniol (died 584) was the first Bishop of Bangor in North Wales. He is also venerated in Brittany as Saint Denoual. In English, the name is translated as Daniel but this is rarely used. Very little is known of the saint's life, but the tradition that he was the first Bishop of Bangor is very strong. He was apparently consecrated in 545 by Saint David. - Ian Roberts
Ian G. Roberts (born October 23, 1957 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England) is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 1985 and taught at the Universities of Geneva (1985-1993), Bangor (1991-1996) and Stuttgart (1996-2000) before taking up his present position at Cambridge in 2000. He is a fellow of Downing College. - Adam Walton
Adam Walton (b. 31 May 1971 in Davenham, Cheshire) is an alternative DJ for BBC Radio Wales. He was brought up in Nannerch, near Mold, North Wales. Having played in local pop/indie bands in the late 1980s to the early 1990s, such as Metroland and The Immediate, Adam got his first job as a DJ after telling BBC producer Alan Daulby his radio station was 'shit'. Adam presented his first show 'Burst' in summer 1991 on the now defunct BBC Radio Clwyd, … - Rod Richards
Rod (Roderick) Richards (born Llanelli 12 March 1947) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for North West Clwyd, in Wales, from 1992 to 1997, when he lost his seat in the Labour Party landslide. He was also the Conservative leader in the Welsh Assembly in 1999, after being elected as an Assembly Member for North Wales. Welsh speaking, Mr Richards was educated at Llandovery College and Swansea University. - David Cox
David Cox (April 29, 1783 - June 7, 1859) was an English landscape painter. Cox was considered one of the prominent figures of British watercolour painting and at the time was rivalled only by John Constable in his portrayal of nature's moods. Cox was born in Deritend Birmingham, the son of a blacksmith. In around 1798, he was apprenticed to a maker of fancy articles named Fieldler, and soon learnt to paint portrait miniatures. - Kevin Ratcliffe
Kevin Ratcliffe (born 12 November 1960 in Mancot, near Queensferry in North Wales) is a former footballer for mainly Everton and Wales. Ratcliffe was considered one of the fastest central defenders ever to play football. On arrival at Everton he challenged the whole first team squad to a sprint race and won. He was not the most skillful of footballers but he anticipated superbly, tackled ferociously and did the simple things well. - T. E. Lawrence
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (August 16, 1888 - May 19, 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, but whose vivid personality and writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as "Lawrence of Arabia". - Neil Aspinall
Neil Aspinall (born in Prestatyn, North Wales, October 13 1942) was a childhood friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison at the Liverpool Institute grammar school in Liverpool. The Beatles later employed Aspinall as their road manager and personal assistant, which included driving his old Commer van to and from shows, both day and night. After Mal Evans started work for The Beatles, Aspinall was promoted to become their personal assistant, … - Evan Roberts
Evan Roberts MBE, M.Sc., (hon.) 1956 (1909 - 1991) (botanist, conservationist and mountain man) Evan Roberts was an internationally known and recognised botanist who lived and worked all his life in Capel Curig (Gelli), in Snowdonia, North Wales. - Twm O'R Nant
Twm o’r Nant was the pen name of Welsh language dramatist and poet Thomas Edwards. He was born in Llannefydd, Denbighshire, north-east Wales. He was famous for his "anterliwtau" (interludes), performed mainly around his native Denbighshire, north Wales. - Martin Davies
Sir Martin Davies, KB, CBE, DLitt, FBA, FSA was a British museum director and civil servant. He first joined the staff of the National Gallery, the institution to which he was to devote his career, as an attaché in 1930. After being made Assistant Keeper in 1932 he called for improved research on the paintings in the collection, which would eventually come to fruition in the series of catalogues inaugurated by Davies and still being produced by the Gallery today. - Paul Pritchard
Paul Pritchard (born 1967 in Bolton, Lancashire) was one of the leading British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s. He started climbing at 16 in his native Lancashire, and in 1986 moved to Llanberis in North Wales, climbing extensively on the slate of the Llanberis quarries and on the sea cliffs at Gogarth. He gained a reputation for climbing hard and very poorly protected routes such as Super Calabrese (E8 6b) at Gogarth, … - Simon Darby
Simon Darby (born 1965) is a leading member of the British National Party, currently serving as both Director of Information Technology and West Midlands organiser. A computer communications consulatant by trade, Darby began his political career in the National Democrats, most of whose activity was centred around his West Midlands base. - Graeme Smith
Graeme Smith is a TV and radio presenter in the UK. He currently works on Xfm London and Current TV in the UK and the US. He started his broadcasting career aged 14 via the traditional route of hospital radio at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Radio HMV in Liverpool later being taken on by newly launched Juice FM (Crash FM relaunched) in Liverpool in March 2000 aged 16. - Russell Grant
Russell Grant (born 5 February1951 in Hillingdon) is a popular British astrologer and media personality. He is frequently quoted in the media, as well as working as a television presenter. He has written several books dealing with matters astrological, among which is his biggest international seller "The Illustrated Dream Dictionary". He has had his books translated into languages ranging from Chinese to Afrikaans, over 20 in all. - Stephen Evans
Stephen Evans (b. 27 November 1970 in Clwyd, North Wales) is a British actor and comedy writer of theater, film, radio and television. Member of four-man comedy sketch group Dutch Elm Conservatoire. Nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the show "Dutch Elm Conservatoire in Conspiracy". - Tony Roberts
Anthony (Tony) Roberts (born August 4, 1969 in Holyhead, North Wales) is a Welshman and a professional football player, currently plays for Dagenham & Redbridge as a goalkeeper and wears shirt number 1. Roberts was formerly the goalkeeping coach at Championship side Queens Park Rangers. - Simon Vallor
Simon Vallor is a twenty-two year old web designer from North Wales who, in December 2002, pleaded guilty to writing and distributing three computer viruses. On 21 January 2003 he was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court, London to a two year custodial sentence. His viruses - Gokar, Redesi and Admirer - were proven to have infected 27,000 PCs in 42 countries. - Russell Davies
Russell Davies was born in Barmouth, North Wales and currently presents a Sunday radio programme on BBC Radio 2 which spotlights popular song. He was awarded a first class degree at St John's College, Cambridge but soon abandoned his post-graduate studies in German literature when the opportunity arose to tour with the Cambridge Footlights revue. As a journalist, Davies worked as a film and television critic for "The Observer" and "The Sunday Times", … - Jonny Buckland
Jonathan Mark Buckland (born 11 September 1977), known as Jon or Jonny Buckland, is the lead guitarist of the band Coldplay. Buckland was born in London, England, and lived there until the age of four, when his family moved to Pantymwyn, North Wales. He was encouraged to enter the music scene by his elder brother, who was a big fan of My Bloody Valentine. Buckland started playing the guitar at the age of eleven, … - Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman (born Wallasey, May 15, 1936) is a British cartoonist and caricaturist. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales, Steadman attended Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan (high school), Abergele, East Ham Technical College and the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts during the 1960s, doing freelance work for "Punch, Private Eye," the "Daily Telegraph," the "New York Times" and "Rolling Stone" during this time. - Robert Of Rhuddlan
Robert of Rhuddlan (died 3 July 1088) was a Norman adventurer who became lord of much of north-east Wales and for a period lord of all North Wales. Robert was the cousin of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, and appears to have come to the Welsh Marches before 1066 in the service of Edward the Confessor. Hugh became Earl of Chester in 1070, and Robert appears to have been appointed Hugh's "commander of troops" in 1072. - Freddie Garrity
Freddie Garrity (14 November 1936, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK – 19 May 2006, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK) was the singer, frontman and comical element in the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers. In the early years of the band, Garrity's official birthdate was given as 14 November 1940 to make him appear younger and therefore more appealing to the youth market who bought the majority of records sold in England at the time. - A. H. Dodd
Professor Arthur Herbert Dodd (1891 - 21 May 1975), was an academic historian who taught and published widely, specialising in the politics of the Tudor and Stuart periods, Welsh history, and the history of the Industrial Revolution. Dodd was born and brought up in North Wales, at Wrexham, where his father Charles was a headmaster. It was a family of modest means but studious inclinations; one of his three brothers, C. H. Dodd, … - Andy Scott-Lee
Andy Scott-Lee (born Robert Andrew J. Scott-Lee on 29 March 1980 in Bodelwyddan, North Wales) is a former British pop star of a quarter Chinese extraction, who is an ex-member of the band 3SL. After the group broke up, he appeared in the second series of "Pop Idol", making it to the final seven. More recently, he took part in the qualifying rounds to represent the United Kingdom in the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, where he was up against, Javine, Katie Price, … - Bethan Gwanas
Bethan Gwanas (born 16 January 1962) is a popular contemporary Welsh author, who publishes exclusively in the Welsh language. A prolific writer, she has had 17 titles published in the last decade. Whilst not just a fiction writer, she has written novels for teenagers and Welsh learners, though most of her recent work has been for adults. She graduated in French from Aberystwyth University, and in 1985 she won the Crown at the Urdd Eisteddfod. - David Wrench
David Wrench is an albino pop singer from North Wales. He first came to public attention while still at school in 1989 with his first group Nid Madagascar, who recorded "the first Welsh language acid house record" as a 12" single in 1990. Reappearing some years later as a solo artist he was signed first to Ankst Records of Cardiff and later to Manchester based Storm Music. Wrench has made two albums, "Blow Winds Blow" and "The Atomic World of Tomorrow", … - Robert Richards
Robert Richards (1884 - 22 December 1954) was a British Labour Party politician, who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Wrexham in North Wales for two periods between 1929 and 1954. He was first elected at the 1922 general election, and was re-elected in 1923, but at the 1924 general election he lost the seat to the Liberal Party candidate, Christmas Price Williams. Richards was re-elected at the 1929 general election, … - William Roache
William "Bill" Roache MBE, Hon D.Litt (born April 25, 1932 in Ilkeston, Derbyshire) is an English television actor, who plays the part of 'Ken Barlow' in the long-running soap opera, "Coronation Street". He is the only remaining member of the original cast, having appeared in the first episode in 1960. He was educated at the independent Rydal School in Colwyn Bay, North Wales. - Soundhog
Soundhog (Ben Hayes) is a DJ, producer and composer of a number of acclaimed Bastard Pop songs. Based in North Wales, he is distinguished by his apparently encyclopaedic knowledge of popular music, which he draws on to concoct "A vs B" tracks that often cast familiar pop, hip hop and R'n'B vocals in a whole new light by using such unlikely "backing bands" as Focus and The Beatles.
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