Gwyn

Gwyn (or Gwynn) meaning "white" or "blessed" in Welsh and Cornish, may refer to the following:

People

As given name

• Gwyn Prosser, a British politician.
• Gwyn Nicholls, a Welsh rugby union player.
• Cynthia Gwyn Brown, an American model and actress.
• Thomas Gwyn Elger, the first director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association.
• Gwynne Dyer, a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian.

As family name

• Gwyn:
  • Saint Richard Gwyn, a Welsh martyr
  • Aaron Gwyn, an American novelist and short story writer
  • Richard Gwyn, a Canadian civil servant, journalist and author
  • Sandra Gwyn, a Canadian journalist and writer
  • Marcus Gwyn, a baseball player

• Gwynn:
  • Chris Gwynn (born 1964), former Major League Baseball player; brother of Tony Gwynn (below)
  • Michael Gwynn (1916–1976), British actor
  • Tony Gwynn (1960–2014), Baseball Hall of Fame member
  • Tony Gwynn, Jr. (born 1982), baseball player and son of Tony (Sr.)
  • Anisha Nicole Gwynn (born 1985), American singer better known as Anisha Nicole or Nee-Nee Gwynn (daughter of Tony Sr.).

• Gwynne:
  • Andrew Gwynne, British Labour Party politician
  • Anne Gwynne, American film actress of the 1940s
  • David Gwynne, Welsh cricketer
  • Edward Castres Gwynne, English-born Australian lawyer
  • Fred Gwynne, American actor
  • Horace Gwynne, Canadian boxer
  • Jack Gwynne, American Illusionist
  • John Wellington Gwynne, Canadian lawyer and puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
  • John W. Gwynne, seven-term Republican U.S. Representative
  • Llewellyn Gwynne, the first Anglican Bishop of Egypt and Sudan
  • Glen Gwynne, Australian soccer player
  • Nell Gwynne, long-time mistress of King Charles II
  • Roland Gwynne, Mayor of Eastbourne 1929-1931 and lover of the suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams
  • Nevile Gwynne, British grammarian

Places

• Gwynne, Alberta

Schools

• St Richard Gwyn High School, Flint
• St Richard Gwyn High School, Barry

Fiction

• Gwyn ap Nudd, a mythical ruler of Annwn.
• Gwynn, a witch from Sluggy Freelance
• Nell Gwynne (operetta), an 1884 operetta by Robert Planquette and H. B. Farnie
• Gwyn, Lord of Cinder and former Lord of Sunlight, patriarchal deity of Lordran in the Roleplaying Video Game Dark Souls by From Software