Hywel Rhodri Morgan, PC AM (born 29 September 1939) is a Welsh politician; the Labour National Assembly for Wales Member for the constituency of Cardiff West; and the second and current First Minister for Wales.

Ronald Davies (born 6 August, 1946) is a Welsh politician, former Secretary of State for Wales, former Member of Parliament and former member of the Welsh Assembly. He is credited with being the 'architect of devolution' in Wales and led the campaign to create a National Assembly for Wales. He became the first Cabinet Minister to resign from Tony Blair's Cabinet, in 1998. In 2004 he resigned from the Labour Party, joining Forward Wales, …

Leighton Andrews (born August 11, 1957, in Cardiff) is a Welsh Labour politician, currently the National Assembly for Wales member for Rhondda since 2003.

Gwenda Thomas AM (born in Neath, 1942) is the Labour National Assembly Member for Neath. Mrs Thomas was first elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and re-elected in 2003, having almost doubled her majority. She is a fluent Welsh speaker. She is a member of the GMB Union. She was re-elected as Welsh Labour's Assembly Member for Neath on May 3rd 2007 for a third 4 year term in office, with a majority reduced from 4,946 to 1,944.

Carwyn Jones AM, (born 21 March 1967), is the Labour Assembly Member for Bridgend and Minister for Education, Culture and the Welsh Language in the Welsh Assembly Government since 31 May 2007. Along with a number of other Assembly Members, he is a fluent Welsh speaker. Member of Amnesty International, and Fabian Society.

Jane Hutt (born 1949) is a Welsh Labour politician and a Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government, and a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Vale of Glamorgan.

Jane Davidson (born 1957) is the Labour Assembly Member for Pontypridd. She lives in Gwaelod-y-Garth with her husband and three children. She is also the Welsh Vice-President of the Ramblers' Association.

Andrew Davies (born 5 May, 1952 in Hereford) is a Labour politician; currently Minister for Social Justice and Public Service Delivery in the Welsh Assembly Government and member for the constituency of Swansea West in the National Assembly for Wales. Born to Welsh parents, his mother from Llandeilo and his father in Holywell in Flintshire.

Edwina Hart MBE AM, (born 26 April 1957) is a Welsh Labour Party politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales representing Gower since 1999. She is also Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Health and Social Services since May 2007.

Aneurin Bevan, usually known as Nye Bevan (November 15, 1897 - July 6, 1960) was a Welsh Labour politician and a socialist. He was a key figure on the left of the party in the mid-twentieth century and was the Secretary of State responsible for the formation of the National Health Service.

Dr. Brian Gibbons FRCGP, (born in Dublin, 1950) is the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon since May 1999 and was appointed Welsh Assembly Government Minister for the Economy and Transport in May 2007.

Christopher John Bryant (born January 11, 1962) is a British politician and is the Labour Member of Parliament for Rhondda, which he has held since 2001.

Sue Essex (born 1945) is the Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Cardiff North from 1999 to 2007. She was the Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Finance, Local Government and Public Services in the Second Assembly 2003-07 and retired at the 2007 election. Brought up in Tottenham, she moved to South Wales in 1971 and was at one point leader of Cardiff City Council.

Wayne David (born July 1, 1957) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Caerphilly.

John Griffiths (born 1956) is a Labour and Co-operative politician and Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Newport East since 1999.

Alun John Pugh (born 1955) is a former Labour Welsh Assembly Government Minister for Culture, Welsh Language and Sport. Pugh was born into a poor coal mining family in the Rhondda Valleys. He moved to North Wales in the mid 1980s. Pugh currently lives in his former constituency near Ruthin, and lived in Deganwy for much of his time in North Wales. He learned Welsh as an adult.

Lynne Neagle born January 18 1968, Merthyr Tydfil, is the Labour National Assembly for Wales member for Torfaen since 1999.

Christine Chapman (born 7 April, 1956) is a Welsh Labour politician who has been a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Cynon Valley since 1999. She has not held senior government posts and has been described as "one of the quietest women AMs" but one whose "effectiveness lies in her quiet willingness to discuss".

Carl Sargeant (born 1968, St Asaph, Wales) is a Welsh Labour Party politician and a member of the National Assembly of Wales for the Alyn and Deeside constituency.

Delyth Evans born March 17, 1958, Cardiff was the Labour National Assembly for Wales member for Mid and West Wales 2000-03.

Rosemary Butler (born 21 January, 1943) is a British politician and Labour Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Newport West since 1999. Serving briefly as Assembly Secretary for Education in the first two years of the Assembly, she was elected Deputy Presiding Officer of the Assembly in May 2007.

(Thomas) Alun Rhys Davies (born 12 February, 1964) is a Welsh public affairs consultant and Labour Party politician. After beginning his political career in Plaid Cymru he switched to the Labour Party and in 2007 was elected to the National Assembly for Wales from the Mid and West Wales region.

Paul Windsor Davies (born 1969) is a British Conservative politician. He was elected in May 2007 to the National Assembly for Wales representing the constituency of Preseli Pembrokeshire, gaining the seat from Labour.

Richard Edwards PhD, born 1956, Llanelli, is a former Welsh Labour politician who was a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Preseli Pembrokeshire from 1999 to 2003. Before politics he worked in local government and was a political researcher.

Leopold Abse (born April 22, 1917) is a British politician from Wales. He was a Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and is noted for promoting private member's bills to legalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws. Since his retirement he has written political books based on his interest in psychoanalysis.

Sandra (Sandy) Mewies (born Feb 16, 1950) is the Labour Party National Assembly for Wales member for Delyn. Originally from Brymbo, near Wrexham, Sandy now lives in near Caerwys.

Huw Thomas Edwards (1892-1970) was a Welsh trade union leader and politician. Edwards was an opponent of the campaign for a Welsh Parliament until the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley to create a reservoir to service Liverpool. In 1956 he bought the Welsh-language periodical, "Y Faner", in order to save it from liquidation. In 1958 he left the Labour to join Plaid Cymru, and later became President of the Welsh Language Society.

Elizabeth Andrews (1882-1960) was the first woman organiser of the Labour Party in Wales. Andrews was born into a mining family at Hirwaun in the Cynon Valley, one of eleven children (two of whom died during childhood). She was obliged to leave school at the age of twelve, in order to help at home. Ten years later, a letter she wrote to the press in support of Evan Roberts gained her some attention, and she joined the women's suffrage movement at about the same time.

Rachel Maycock (born 1981) was a candidate for the National Assembly for Wales for the Wales Labour Party in the Montgomeryshire constituency. Rachel Maycock is a member of the GMB union and Unite the union.

Val Feld (née Valerie Breen Turner, was a Welsh Labour Party politician.

Baroness Anita Gale Anita Gale has served as the Commissioner for Wales since 2004. She is a former General Secretary of the Wales Labour Party (1984 -1999.) Previously she served as its Women’s Officer for eight years (1976-1984). She is a trade unionist, and is a former Equalities officer of the trade union, the Labour Organisers Branch of the GMB. She was appointed as a Life Peer in 1999.