Category
page 1People from Merthyr Tydfil
Ian Watkins
Ian David Karslake Watkins was a Welsh singer, songwriter, and convicted child sex offender. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Lostprophets from 1997 to 2012. Watkins founded Lostprophets with Lee Gaze in 1997, having previously been in a band called Fleshbind with him. Lostprophets released five studio albums, four of which made the top 10 of the UK Albums Chart, including Liberation Transmission which went to number 1 in 2006.
John Hughes
Welsh businessman, founder of Donetsk
Timothy Evans
British man wrongly convicted of murder (1924-1950)
The Blackout
British rock band
Joseph Parry
Welsh composer (1841–1903)
Merryl Wyn Davies
Welsh Muslim scholar
John Edward Jones
American politician (1840-1896)
Samuel Griffith
Australian politician (1845–1920)
Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley
British newspaper publisher and Viscount (1883-1968)
Thomas Stephens
Welsh historian (1821–1875)
Kim Howells
British politician (born 1946)
Kizzy Crawford
Bajan-Welsh singer and songwriter
Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne
British businessman and baron (1835–1914)
William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose
British newspaper publisher (1879-1954)
Anna Maria Bennett
Welsh novelist writing in English
Samuel Griffith
American politician (1816-1893)
Richard Crawshay
British iron merchant (1739 – 1810)
Jack Jones
Welsh miner, trade union official, politician and writer (1884-1970)