Below you will find our complete list of English people of Welsh descent - there are currently 187 records in this list.
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Topic |
Description |
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| 1. |
Keira Knightley |
British actress |
375,470 |
| 2. |
Alice Eve |
Actress |
372,642 |
| 3. |
Adele |
British singer-songwriter |
249,118 |
| 4. |
Carey Mulligan |
Actress |
180,111 |
| 5. |
Daniel Craig |
English actor |
155,855 |
| 6. |
Olivia Newton-John |
Anglo-Australian singer and actress |
133,171 |
| 7. |
Leona Lewis |
English singer–songwriter |
102,785 |
| 8. |
Keith Richards |
English guitarist; songwriter; singer |
97,095 |
| 9. |
Lily Allen |
Singer-songwriter |
89,020 |
| 10. |
Rufus Sewell |
English film, television, and theatre actor. |
84,879 |
| 11. |
Sophia Myles |
English actress |
81,489 |
| 12. |
Minnie Driver |
actress, singer-songwriter |
79,175 |
| 13. |
Carol Vorderman |
English TV presenter |
75,098 |
| 14. |
Matthew Macfadyen |
British actor |
59,436 |
| 15. |
Alan Rickman |
English film, television and stage actor |
54,263 |
| 16. |
Brian Jones |
English, Guitarist |
45,762 |
| 17. |
Sharron Davies |
Retired swimmer from the United Kingdom. She won a silver medal in the 400 metre individual medley at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and two gold medals at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. Since retiring from the sport, she has worked as television |
39,880 |
| 18. |
Damian Lewis |
British actor and producer |
36,522 |
| 19. |
Peaches Geldof |
Model, TV presenter, and journalist |
34,441 |
| 20. |
Petula Clark |
Singer/actress/composer |
32,080 |
| 21. |
Louise Griffiths |
British |
23,880 |
| 22. |
Rupert Penry-Jones |
British actor |
23,851 |
| 23. |
Lee Evans |
English stand-up comedian and actor |
22,065 |
| 24. |
Helen McCrory |
English, Actress |
21,785 |
| 25. |
Bob Hope |
English entertainer |
19,744 |
| 26. |
Pixie Geldof |
British model |
18,926 |
| 27. |
Sacha Baron Cohen |
English comedian and actor |
17,018 |
| 28. |
Gabby Logan |
Welsh, TV Personality |
14,391 |
| 29. |
Juliet Aubrey |
Actress |
12,482 |
| 30. |
Alexandra Burke |
Singer |
11,936 |
| 31. |
Aphex Twin |
Welsh, Composer |
10,061 |
| 32. |
Michelle Collins |
English, Actress |
8,719 |
| 33. |
Michael Owen |
Footballer |
6,199 |
| 34. |
Damian Harris |
British film director and screenwriter |
5,476 |
| 35. |
Vinnie Jones |
English, Actor |
4,734 |
| 36. |
David Mitchell |
British actor, writer and comedian |
4,621 |
| 37. |
Ben Miller |
English comedian, actor, and director |
3,729 |
| 38. |
Jared Harris |
British, Actor |
3,662 |
| 39. |
Alfie Allen |
actor |
3,594 |
| 40. |
Sophie Rhys-Jones |
Wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex |
3,447 |
| 41. |
Michael York |
English actor |
3,423 |
| 42. |
Alastair Cook |
English cricketer |
2,526 |
| 43. |
Mick Jones |
English musician (Singer, songwriter, guitarist) |
2,366 |
| 44. |
Trevor Eve |
British, Actor |
1,973 |
| 45. |
Lonny Chin |
English, Model |
1,416 |
| 46. |
Cathleen Nesbitt |
Actress |
1,174 |
| 47. |
Georgia Mackenzie |
Welsh, Actor |
1,059 |
| 48. |
Lloyd Owen |
British actor |
968 |
| 49. |
Hugh Williams |
English actor |
907 |
| 50. |
Gary Bond |
British, Actor |
790 |
| 51. |
Ian Walker |
Footballer; football manager |
764 |
| 52. |
Queen Elizabeth I |
|
508 |
| 53. |
Robbie Fowler |
English footballer |
508 |
| 54. |
James Whale |
English radio DJ |
499 |
| 55. |
Ronald Lacey |
Actor |
402 |
| 56. |
Greg Davies |
British comedian and actor |
399 |
| 57. |
Jamie Harris |
British actor |
394 |
| 58. |
King Henry VIII |
King of England |
376 |
| 59. |
Abigail Hopkins |
English actress and singer |
336 |
| 60. |
Emer Kenny |
English, Actress |
224 |
| 61. |
Janet Street-Porter |
British media personality, journalist, television presenter, editor |
219 |
| 62. |
Sarah Greene |
British television presenter |
178 |
| 63. |
Tommy Cooper |
Comedian and magician |
168 |
| 64. |
Elizabeth I Of England |
Queen regnant of England and Ireland, last of the Tudor dynasty |
140 |
| 65. |
Henry VIII |
King of England |
137 |
| 66. |
Mary I of England |
Queen of England |
100 |
| 67. |
Gwen Ffrangcon Davies |
Actress |
87 |
| 68. |
Emlyn Hughes |
English footballer and manager |
82 |
| 69. |
Matthew Syed |
Former Olympic table tennis player |
72 |
| 70. |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
English composer |
70 |
| 71. |
Adrian Morley |
British rugby league player |
58 |
| 72. |
Edward VI of England |
King of England, Tudor dynasty |
57 |
| 73. |
Charles Rolls |
British businessman |
51 |
| 74. |
David Baddiel |
British comedian |
51 |
| 75. |
Robert Llewellyn |
Actor |
50 |
| 76. |
Lady Jane Grey |
Disputed "Nine-day queen" of England and Ireland |
47 |
| 77. |
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen |
English homestyle consultant |
47 |
| 78. |
George Eliot |
Novelist |
44 |
| 79. |
Enoch Powell |
British politician |
33 |
| 80. |
Kallum Watkins |
English rugby league player |
32 |
| 81. |
Sian Brooke |
Welsh, Actor |
29 |
| 82. |
David Davies (football administrator) |
British association football administrator |
25 |
| 83. |
Colin Charvis |
English rugby union player |
25 |
| 84. |
Max Woosnam |
English sportsman |
25 |
| 85. |
Ryan Shawcross |
Footballer |
24 |
| 86. |
Andy Bracek |
English/Welsh rugby league player |
23 |
| 87. |
William Penn |
American, Scientist |
21 |
| 88. |
Carl Hardebeck |
Welsh, Musician |
21 |
| 89. |
Gwyneth Dunwoody |
Longest ever serving female Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom |
19 |
| 90. |
E.M. Forster |
Writer |
19 |
| 91. |
Jack Collison |
English footballer |
18 |
| 92. |
Angela Hartnett |
|
16 |
| 93. |
Gareth Owen (footballer) |
English footballer |
16 |
| 94. |
Oliver Cromwell |
English military and political leader |
16 |
| 95. |
Glyn Owen |
Welsh, Actor |
16 |
| 96. |
Freddy Eastwood |
Footballer |
15 |
| 97. |
Mary Tudor, Queen of France |
|
15 |
| 98. |
Sanchez Watt |
Footballer |
14 |
| 99. |
Georgina Weldon |
English soprano |
13 |
| 100. |
Inigo Jones |
Welsh, Architect |
12 |
| 101. |
Wilfred Owen |
English poet and soldier |
12 |
| 102. |
Neil Cowie |
English rugby league player |
12 |
| 103. |
David Mills (rugby league) |
British rugby league player |
11 |
| 104. |
Laura Greene |
|
11 |
| 105. |
Helen Gwynne-Vaughan |
British mycologist and botanist |
10 |
| 106. |
Norman Hassan |
|
9 |
| 107. |
Henry, Duke of Cornwall |
|
9 |
| 108. |
Dewi Morris |
English rugby union player |
9 |
| 109. |
Murder of Rhys Jones |
|
8 |
| 110. |
Garreth Carvell |
English rugby league player |
8 |
| 111. |
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset |
|
8 |
| 112. |
Paul Doran-Jones |
English rugby union player |
8 |
| 113. |
Phil Jevons |
footballer |
8 |
| 114. |
Anna Haycraft |
|
7 |
| 115. |
Adam Hughes (rugby league) |
English Welsh rugby league and rugby union player |
7 |
| 116. |
Ivor Preece |
English rugby union player |
6 |
| 117. |
Semothy Jones |
|
6 |
| 118. |
David Jones (poet) |
British artist |
6 |
| 119. |
Matt James |
|
6 |
| 120. |
Ben Turner (footballer) |
Footballer |
6 |
| 121. |
Joel Lynch |
Footballer |
6 |
| 122. |
Lowri Turner |
British television presenter |
5 |
| 123. |
Charles Langbridge Morgan |
|
5 |
| 124. |
Neil Roberts (actor) |
|
5 |
| 125. |
Craig Kopczak |
British rugby league player |
5 |
| 126. |
David Davis |
Politician, Chairman of the Conservative Party |
2 |
| 127. |
David Ford |
|
1 |
| 128. |
Rob Worrincy |
English rugby league player |
1 |
| 129. |
Kevin Davies |
Footballer |
1 |
| 130. |
John Perrot |
|
1 |
| 131. |
Dave Halley |
English rugby league player |
1 |
| 132. |
Joseph Shoosmith |
Cricketer |
- |
| 133. |
Sean Penkywicz |
British rugby league player |
- |
| 134. |
Will Cuff |
English football manager |
- |
| 135. |
Erran Baron Cohen |
|
- |
| 136. |
Mark Watson |
English comedian and writer |
- |
| 137. |
Richard Wallace (rugby league) |
English rugby league player |
- |
| 138. |
Amaryllis Fleming |
|
- |
| 139. |
Charles Lloyd (poet) |
poet |
- |
| 140. |
Harry Adams (footballer) |
Footballer |
- |
| 141. |
Jacob Emmitt |
British rugby league player |
- |
| 142. |
David Jones (footballer born 1984) |
English footballer |
- |
| 143. |
Frederick Roffey |
Welsh rugby league player |
- |
| 144. |
Nicky Adams |
Footballer |
- |
| 145. |
Charlie Jacks |
Singer |
- |
| 146. |
Chris Dawson (footballer born 1994) |
Footballer |
- |
| 147. |
Matt James (rugby league) |
British rugby league player |
- |
| 148. |
Robyn Williams |
Journalist |
- |
| 149. |
Steve Morison |
Footballer |
- |
| 150. |
Chris Morgan (footballer) |
Association footballer |
- |
| 151. |
David Owen |
British politician and life peer. Foreign Secretary (1977–1979). |
- |
| 152. |
Rohema Miah |
Political advisor |
- |
| 153. |
Steve Thomas (rugby league) |
English rugby league player |
- |
| 154. |
Deryn Rees-Jones |
|
- |
| 155. |
Henry Mark Anthony |
British artist |
- |
| 156. |
Jason Dodd |
Footballer |
- |
| 157. |
Symon Hill |
|
- |
| 158. |
Aaron Jarvis |
Rugby union player |
- |
| 159. |
Gavin Hurren |
|
- |
| 160. |
Jeffrey Richard de Corban Evans |
Shipbroker |
- |
| 161. |
Tom Rees (rugby union) |
English rugby union player |
- |
| 162. |
Bev Risman |
English rugby union player |
- |
| 163. |
Geoffrey Rees |
Welsh, Educator |
- |
| 164. |
Henry Williams (alias Cromwell) |
|
- |
| 165. |
Peter Banner (rugby league) |
English rugby league player |
- |
| 166. |
Bill Francis |
English rugby league player |
- |
| 167. |
Edward Davey |
British politician |
- |
| 168. |
Hugh Jones |
|
- |
| 169. |
John Dee |
Welsh, Mathematician |
- |
| 170. |
Lee Probert |
English football referee |
- |
| 171. |
Michael Worrincy |
English rugby league player |
- |
| 172. |
Peter Bonfield |
|
- |
| 173. |
Dan Snow |
Presenter |
- |
| 174. |
Edward Lloyd (coffeehouse owner) |
Welsh, Business |
- |
| 175. |
George Ray (footballer) |
Footballer |
- |
| 176. |
Hugh Jones (athlete) |
British distance runner |
- |
| 177. |
Peter Williams (rugby league) |
English rugby union and rugby league player |
- |
| 178. |
Vernon Ellis |
Businessperson |
- |
| 179. |
John Ruddy |
Footballer |
- |
| 180. |
Sampson Lloyd |
Welsh, Business |
- |
| 181. |
Alan Parry |
|
- |
| 182. |
Huw Lloyd-Langton |
English guitarist |
- |
| 183. |
Jon Aston |
English/Welsh rugby league player |
- |
| 184. |
Wendy Owen |
Footballer |
- |
| 185. |
Jonathan Smith (novelist) |
Writer |
- |
| 186. |
Milton Jones |
|
- |
| 187. |
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones |
Welsh, Business |
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