- John Williams
John Williams (May 24 1857-November 25, 1932), was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- John Lewis
John Lewis (born Tredegar 15 October 1955) is a former Welsh football player. He played his club football for Cardiff City (1978-1983), Newport County (1983-1987) and Swansea City (1987-1988). He also made one appearance for the Wales under-21 team.
- Geoffrey Of Monmouth
Geoffrey of Monmouth (in Welsh: Gruffudd ap Arthur or Sieffre o Fynwy) (c. 1100 - c. 1155) was a clergyman and one of the major figures in the development of British history and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.
- Aneurin Bevan
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.
- James Dean Bradfield
James Dean Bradfield is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the famous Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.
- Nicky Wire
Nicky Wire (real name: Nicholas Allen Jones) is the lyricist, bass guitar player and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.
- Sean Moore
Sean Anthony Moore is the writer, drummer/percussionist and sometime trumpet player of the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. Born on July 30 1968 in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, he attended the local Oakdale Comprehensive in Blackwood with his cousin James Dean Bradfield, and other future band members Nicky Wire and Richey James Edwards. Moore is a fan of Liverpool football club & Michael Schumacher.
- Cadoc
Saint Cadoc or Cadog, Abbot of Llancarfan, was one of the 6th century Welsh saints whose life touched King Arthur. The Abbey of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, which he founded circa 518, became famous as a centre of learning. The prefix of his name means 'battle'. Cadoc's story appears in the "Buchedd Cadog" (or 'Life of Cadoc') written by Lifris of Llancarfan in circa 1100.
- Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (8 January 1823 - 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He did extensive fieldwork first in the Amazon River basin, and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace line dividing the fauna of Australia from that of Asia.
- Robert Jones
Robert Jones (19 August 1857 - 6 September 1898) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC (11 November 1920 - 5 January 2003) was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he went on to be President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.
- Sir Henry Morgan
Sir Henry Morgan (Hari Morgan in Welsh), (ca. 1635 - August 25, 1688) was an English privateer of Welsh birth, who made a name in the Caribbean as a leader of sea pirates and buccaneers. He is one of the most famous pirates.
- Zephaniah Williams
Zephaniah Williams (1795-1874) was a collier and innkeeper, prosecuted for his part in the Chartist Rising at Newport, Monmouthshire in 1839. Along with John Frost and William Jones, he led a cloumn of men to march on the Westgate Hotel, Newport, site of what is sometimes regarded as the greatest armed rebellion in 19th century Britain. The men asembled at the Welsh oak, Pontymister before marching as one in Newport.
- Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen (March 3, 1863 - December 15, 1947) was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.
- David Watkins
David Watkins (March 5, 1942, Blaina, Monmouthshire) was a dual code international playing both rugby union and rugby league between 1967 and 1983. He is the only player to have captained both the British Lions rugby union side and the Great Britain Lions rugby league team. He joined Newport RUFC in 1961/2 from Cwmcelyn Youth but played odd games for Ebbw Vale and Pontypool while still a youth. He became a Wales Youth International.
- Jack Williams
John (Jack) Henry Williams VC DCM MM & Bar (29 September 1886-7 March 1953), was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Roy Hughes
Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn (9 June 1925-19 December 2003), was a British Labour Party politician, and union organiser. He served as MP for Newport from 1966 to 1983, and for Newport East from 1983 until his retirement in 1997. He accepted a life peerage upon his retirement, and became Baron Islwyn, of Casnewydd in the County of Gwent.
- Augustine Baker
Fr Augustine Baker OSB (1575-1641) was a well-known Benedictine mystic and an ascetic writer. Born David Baker at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, December 9 1575, his father was William Baker, steward to Lord Abergavenny, and his mother was a daughter of Lewis ap John (alias Wallis), Vicar of Abergavenny. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and at Broadgate's Hall, now Pembroke College, Oxford, afterwards becoming a member of Clifford's Inn, and later of the Middle Temple.
- Jocelyn Davies
Jocelyn Davies (b. June 18 1959, Usk, Monmouthshire) is a Plaid Cymru politician and a member of the National Assembly of Wales, list member for South Wales East since 1999.
- Helen Adams
Helen Adams (born May 30, 1978 in Cwmbran, South Wales) rose to fame in the UK when she was chosen to be a contestant on the second series of the reality television show "Big Brother", in 2001.
- Ethel Lina White
Ethel Lina White (1876 - 1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel, "The Wheel Spins", on which the film, "The Lady Vanishes", was based. Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Walesin 1876, White started writing as a child, contributing essays and poems to children's papers. Later she began to write short stories, but it was some years before she wrote books. She left employment in a government job in order to pursue writing.
- Carl Sargent
Carl Sargent (born December 11, 1952, in Caerleon, Monmouthshire) is a British author of several roleplaying game-based products and novels. Most of his role-playing works were published between 1987 and 1996. He has authored many products for both the "Dungeons & Dragons" (particularly for the "World of Greyhawk" campaign setting), "Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay" and "Shadowrun" role-playing games.
- Phil Williams
Professor Philip James Stradling Williams was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist.
- Andy Dibble
Andy Dibble (born 8 May 1965 in Cwmbran) is a Welsh former professional football player who played as a goalkeeper. Dibble was a journeyman who played for many teams including Cardiff City, Manchester City, Rangers F.C., Luton Town and Stockport County. Arguably, his finest moment was saving a penalty in a League Cup final against Arsenal in 1988 for Luton Town F.C..
- Raymond Glendenning
Raymond Glendenning (September 25, 1907 - February 23, 1974) was a legendary BBC radio sports commentator. He was educated at Newport High School, Monmouthshire, and London University. He worked briefly as a chartered accountant before joining the BBC as an organiser on Children's Hour in Cardiff in 1932. In 1935 he moved to Belfast as an outside broadcasts assistant, and began commentating on local sporting events on the BBC's Northern Ireland service.
- Augusta Hall Baroness Llanover
Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover (21 March 1802 - 17 January 1896), born Augusta Waddington, was a Welsh heiress, best known as a patron of the arts. The heiress to the Llanover estate in Monmouthshire, she became the wife of Benjamin Hall the younger (who may have given his name to "Big Ben"). In 1828, the couple commissioned Thomas Hopper to build Llanover Hall, which was designed as a kind of arts centre as well as a family home.
- Lyn Harding
Lyn Harding (real name David Llewellyn Harding) was a Welsh actor who spent 40 years on the stage before entering British made silent films, talkies and radio. He had an imposing and menacing stage presence and came to be cast as the villain in many films, notably Professor Moriarty in dramatisations of the Sherlock Holmes stories. He was born in 1867 at St Brides Wentloog, Wales into a strict Congregationalist Welsh-speaking family.
- Daniel Gabbidon
Daniel Leon "Danny" Gabbidon (born August 8, 1979 in Cwmbran, Wales) is a professional Welsh footballer currently playing for West Ham United and for Wales. He plays at centre half.
- Alf Morgans
Alfred Edward Morgans was Premier of Western Australia for just 32 days, from 21 November to 23 December 1901. Alf Morgans was born at Ochr Churith Machen Lower, Monmouthshire in Wales on 17 February 1850. He was educated at private schools and at the Welsh School of Mines, and later was apprenticed to a mechanical engineering firm at Ebbw Vale. On 19 March 1872, he married Fanny Ridler at Gloucester in England.
- Vulcana
Kate Williams (1875 - 1946), sometimes called Kate Roberts, better known by her stage name Vulcana, was a Welsh strongwoman born of Irish parents in Abergavenny. With strongman William Hedley Roberts, better known as Atlas, they toured English music halls, Europe and Australia, performing as The Atlas and Vulcana Group of Society Athletes.
- Bryan D. White
Bryan David White (born 9 February 1936 in Tredegar, Wales) was General Secretary (1978-1984) and Chief Executive Officer of the Loyal Order of Moose in Britain (1984-2001). White was the younger son of George White and he joined the Loyal Order of Moose in Britain in 1966, as the third generation of his family to do so. He rose rapidly through its ranks and became the Welsh Area Secretary, the Assistant General Secretary, and in January 1978, …
- Ken Jones
Kenneth 'Ken' Jeffrey Jones OBE (30 December 1921-19 April 2006) was a Welsh rugby union footballer who played wing three quarter back for his country 44 times and played for the British and Irish Lions 3 times. In 1953 he scored the winning try in a match against New Zealand. He also won a silver medal in the sprint relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics; see Kenneth Jones.
- James Stephens
James Stephens (born Chepstow, Wales, 1821; died Melbourne, Australia, 1889) was a stonemason, Chartist, and Australian trade unionist. As a youth he moved to Newport, a stronghold of Chartism, joined the Masons' Society in 1839 and that year was seriously injured in a fall of thirty feet. He joined the Chartist movement and was one of the participants in the riot at the Westgate Hotel when soldiers fired on the rebels, killing twenty.
- John Wyndham Beynon
Sir John Wyndham Beynon, 1st Baronet CBE (2 December 1864-13 October 1944) was a Welsh iron and steel manufacturer and coal owner. Beynon was born in Castleton, Monmouthshire. He was educated at Clifton College, after which he went into business and eventually became chairman and managing director of the Ebbw Vale Colliery Company, as well as being a director of a number of other iron, steel and coal concerns.
- Darren Morgan
Darren Morgan (born May 3, 1966) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He lives in Fleur-de-Lys, near Blackwood, Caerphilly. Morgan has won the 1996 Irish Masters as well as having reached two ranking finals: the 1992 Regal Welsh Open and the 1993 Asian Open. He also reached the World Championship semi-finals in 1994. He later captained Wales to victory in the Nations Cup event.
- Beriah Gwynfe Evans
Beriah Gwynfe Evans, was a journalist, Congregationalist, dramatist, British Liberal politician and Welsh Nationalist. Born at Nant-y-glo, Monmouthshire, Evans was educated at the Beaufort British School and became a teacher at Gwynfe and Llangadog, Carmarthenshire. However, his ambition was to become a journalist. As a playwright, Evans introduced a sceptical Nonconformity to drama with his nationalist play "Owain Glyndŵr", …
- Nathaniel Wells
Nathaniel Wells (born 1779 in St Kitts; died 13 May, 1852 in Bath, Somerset), was the son of a Welsh merchant and his black slave. After inheriting his father's plantations, he became a wealthy land owner, magistrate, and Britain's first black Sheriff.
- Thomas Monaghan
Thomas Monaghan (18 October 1833 - 10 November 1895) was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- Reginald Brooks-King
Reginald Brooks-King (born 1861 in Monmouth, Wales - died 19 September 1938) was a British archer. He won the silver medal in the men's double York round at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Brooks-King shot a 393 in the first round of the competition, held in London. This put him in second place, 10 points behind leader William Dod halfway through the event.
- Jack Edwards
John William Edwards (born July 6, 1929 in Risca) is a former professional footballer and football manager. In his playing career he was a full-back. Jack Edwards began his career as an amateur with Cardiff City before moving on to Lovells Athletic from whom he joined Crystal Palace in September 1949.