List of Famous people born in Bangor, United Kingdom
Duffy
Aimee Anne Duffy, known by her surname, is a Welsh singer, songwriter and actress. Her debut album, Rockferry, released in 2008, became the best-selling album in the United Kingdom that year and led to worldwide attention. It spawned the successful single "Mercy". In 2009, Duffy received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, one of three nominations, and won three out of four Brit Awards nominations, for British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best British Album. In 2010, she made her acting debut in the film Patagonia and released her second studio album Endlessly to moderate success.
Wayne Hennessey
Wayne Robert Hennessey is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Wales national team.
Ian Whyte
Ian Stuart Whyte is a Welsh actor, stuntman and former professional basketball player. He is best known for his roles as Predators in the Alien vs. Predator film series, Sheikh Suleiman in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans, The Last Engineer in Prometheus, as well as various characters in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.
Aled Jones
Aled Jones, is a Welsh singer and radio and television presenter. As a teenage chorister, he reached widespread fame during the mid-1980s. Since then he has worked in television with the BBC and ITV, and radio.
Sasha
Alexander Paul Coe, known mononymously as Sasha, is a Welsh DJ and record producer. He is best known for his live events and electronic music as a solo artist, as well as his collaborations with British DJ John Digweed as Sasha & John Digweed. He was voted as World No. 1 DJ in 2000 in a poll conducted by DJ Magazine. He is a four-time International Dance Music Awards winner, four-time DJ Awards winner and Grammy Award nominee.
John Clough Williams-Ellis
Evin Crowley
Evin Crowley is a Northern Irish actress. She was born in Bangor, County Down. She started acting as an amateur at a small theatre, later to become the Lyric Theatre, in Belfast, before later being chosen to play the role of Moureen in David Lean's Ryan's Daughter (1970).
Gwenllian of Wales
Gwenllian of Wales or Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn was the only child of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales. She is sometimes confused with Gwenllian ferch Gruffudd, who lived two centuries earlier.
Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon CBE is a British abstract sculptor, and a winner of the Turner Prize.
Matthew Tipton
Matthew John Tipton is a Welsh football manager and former professional player who is the manager of NIFL Premiership team Portadown.