List of people from Swansea
This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with, the city of Swansea, in Britain.
Academics
- Edward George Bowen, FRS, radar pioneer
- Sir Sam Edwards (physicist) FRS
- Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, FRS, physicist
- Sir Clive Granger, Nobel-Prize-winning economist
- Sir William Robert Grove, FRS, physicist and judge
- Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst
- John Viriamu Jones, FRS, mathematician, physicist
- Sir John Maddox, Hon. FRS, science writer
- Arun Midha, medical educationist
- Dewi Zephaniah Phillips, philosopher
- David Williams (mathematician) FRS
- Rhys Williams, clinical epidemiologist
- C. E. Wynn-Williams, physicist
Actors/actresses
Artists
Industrialists
Journalists and broadcasters
Musicians
- Badfinger, rock music group
- Emily Beynon, flautist
- Lisa Lee Dark, singer
- Spencer Davis, rock musician
- Fred Godfrey, songwriter
- Pete Ham, singer/songwriter
- Jones Hewson, baritone
- Shaheen Jafargholi, singer
- Karl Jenkins, composer
- Daniel Jones, composer
- John Metcalf, composer
- Ceri Rhys Matthews, traditional musician
- Rebecca Onslow, singer/songwriter
- Mal Pope, singer/songwriter
- Harry Secombe, comedian, singer
- The Storys, rock band
- Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano
- Viva Machine, alternative rock group
- John Weathers, rock drummer
- Terry Williams (drummer)
Politicians
Religious leaders
Sports people
- Jimmy Austin, baseball player
- Nicole Cooke, cyclist
- Brian Curvis, boxer
- Dai Dower, boxer
- Philip George, cricketer
- Alan Jones (cricketer)
- Enzo Maccarinelli, boxer
- Gilbert Parkhouse, cricketer
- Carl Roberts, cricketer
- Gary Taylor, 1993 World's Strongest Man
- Rob Terry, wrestler
Rugby players
Writers
- Martin Amis, novelist
- Mary Balogh, novelist
- Russell T Davies, Doctor Who screenwriter
- Amy Dillwyn, writer and businesswoman
- Joe Dunthorne, novelist, poet, journalist
- Paul Ferris
- Iris Gower, novelist
- Bryn Griffiths (writer), poet
- Cyril Gwynn, oral poet
- Ann Hatton, novelist
- Nigel Jenkins, poet
- Stephen Knight, poet
- Gary Ley, novelist
- Bob Lock, novelist
- Ruth Manning-Sanders, children's author and poet
- T. J. Morgan
- John Ormond, poet
- John Pook, poet
- Dylan Thomas, poet/playwright
- Vernon Watkins, poet
- Harri Webb, poet
Other
- Sybil Connolly, fashion designer
- Edgar Evans, Antarctic explorer
- Richard Glynn Vivian, art collector
- Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, Field Marshal and Egyptologist
- Frederick Higginson, RAF fighter ace
- Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, medical administrator
- Andrew Jones (filmmaker)
- Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland
- John Dillwyn Llewellyn, pioneer photographer, botanist
- Sean Mathias, theatre director, film director
- David Miles, economist
- Margaret Morris (Mrs Noel Desenfans), art collector
- Beau Nash, socialite, dandy
- Heather Nicholson, animal rights activist
- Red Lady of Paviland, Upper Palaeolithic remains
- Alan Woods (political theorist)
See also