List of Famous people born in Wales, United Kingdom

David Nott

First Name David
Last Name Nott
Born on January 1, 1956 (age 70)

David Malcolm Nott is a Welsh consultant surgeon who works mainly in London hospitals as a general and vascular surgeon, but also volunteers to work in disaster and war zones. Having recognised that training others could greatly increase his capacity to help, Nott established the David Nott Foundation, along with his wife Elly, to organise training in emergency surgery for others working in war and disaster zones. He has been honoured for this dangerous work and is now often styled the "Indiana Jones of surgery".

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Andrew Howard

First Name Andrew
Last Name Howard
Born on June 12, 1969 (age 57)

Andrew Howard is a Welsh theatre, television and film actor.

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Alun Cairns

First Name Alun
Born on July 30, 1970 (age 55)

Alun Hugh Cairns is a Welsh Conservative Party politician who served as Secretary of State for Wales from 2016 to 2019. He was previously a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the South Wales West region from the 1999 Welsh Assembly Election until 2011, and was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan. He resigned as Secretary of State on 6 November 2019, after claims he had known about a former aide's role in the 'sabotage' of a rape trial. Cairns said that he did not know the details of the case and in December 2019 he was cleared of breaking the ministerial code.

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Ash Dykes

First Name Ash
Last Name Dykes
Born on November 1, 1990 (age 35)

Ashley Philip Dykes is a Welsh adventurer and extreme athlete. He achieved two official world-first records, trekking across Mongolia and Madagascar, before the age of 25. In August 2019, he achieved his third official record, becoming the first person to walk along the full 4,000-mile (6,437km) course of the Yangtze, the longest river in Asia.

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Gareth Edwards

First Name Gareth
Born on July 12, 1947 (age 78)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Sir Gareth Owen Edwards, CBE is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".

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Josie d'Arby

First Name Josie
Born on October 3, 1972 (age 53)

Josephine d'Arby is a Welsh television presenter and painter from Newport, Wales. She presented a number of high-profile shows and in 1999 became the youngest British woman to host her own chat show, doing so on Channel 5.

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Seb Morris

First Name Seb
Born on November 30, 1995 (age 30)

Sebastian "Seb" Morris is a professional racing driver from Marford, who lives in Chester, Cheshire. He won the 2017 British GT Championship. He also won the 2017 Sunoco Challenge which gave him the prize drive in the Number 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi at the Rolex 24 hours at Daytona. He led the race for three hours in his stint. Earlier in his career, Morris was a member of the Caterham F1 Academy and was selected by Jack Wills as a Young Brit for their 2013/14 Autumn / Winter campaign.

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David Pipe

First Name David
Last Name Pipe
Born on November 5, 1983 (age 42)

David Ronald Pipe is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a midfielder or full-back.

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Owain Doull

First Name Owain
Last Name Doull
Born on May 2, 1993 (age 33)

Owain Daniel Doull is a Welsh road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. Doull specialises in the team pursuit on the track, and won a gold medal in the discipline at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; as a result, he became the first Welsh-speaking athlete to win Olympic gold.

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Katy Wix

First Name Katy
Born on February 28, 1980 (age 46)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Katy Wix is a Welsh actress and comedian. She is best known for her television roles as Daisy in Not Going Out, Carole in Stath Lets Flats, Mary in Ghosts and Sarah Ferguson in The Windsors. She has also appeared in Outnumbered, Miranda and as a regular contestant in series 9 of Taskmaster.

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