List of Famous people born in Wales, United Kingdom
Bryn Williams
Bryn Dwyfor Williams is a chef originally from Denbigh, Wales. He is the head chef and sole proprietor of Odette's Restaurant, Primrose Hill, London. He shot to fame as merely a sous chef in 2006 by beating established and well-known chefs to cook the fish course for the Queen's 80th birthday celebrations on the television programme Great British Menu. He is now widely regarded as one of Wales' best chefs and one of Britain's new crop of "celebrity" chefs. In June 2015 he opened his new bistro, Bryn@Porth Eirias, on the sea shore in the north Wales town of Colwyn Bay.
Steve Cooper
Steve Cooper is a Welsh professional football manager and former player. He is the head coach of Championship club Swansea City.
Perdita Weeks
Perdita Rose Weeks is a British actress who currently plays Juliet Higgins in the CBS reboot series Magnum P.I.
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.
Siân Phillips
Dame Jane Elizabeth Ailwên Phillips,, known professionally as Siân Phillips, is a Welsh actress. She has performed the title roles in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and G. B. Shaw's Saint Joan.
Ian Watkins
Ian David Karslake Watkins is a Welsh convicted sex offender and former singer, songwriter, and musician. He achieved prominence as the co-founder, lead vocalist, and lyricist of the rock band Lostprophets. In 2013, he was sentenced to 29 years' imprisonment for multiple sexual offences, including the sexual assault of young children. Lostprophets disbanded shortly thereafter and the remaining members formed the band No Devotion, with American singer Geoff Rickly replacing Watkins.
Roddy Llewellyn
Sir Roderic Victor Llewellyn, 5th Baronet, is a British baronet, landscape gardener, journalist, author, and television presenter. He had an eight-year relationship with Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter and political activist from Cardiff, Wales.
Harry Wilson
Harry Wilson is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a winger for Championship club Cardiff City on loan from Liverpool and the Wales national team.
Colin Jackson
Colin Ray Jackson, is a Welsh former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. During a career in which he represented Great Britain and Wales, he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion twice, World indoor champion once, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and was a two-time Commonwealth champion. His world record of 12.91 seconds for the 110m hurdles stood for over a decade and he remains the 60 metres hurdles world record holder.