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Asian Welsh people are people who live in Wales with Asian heritage, Welsh people of Asian heritage or people with mixed Asian and Welsh heritage. As with other parts of the United Kingdom, "Asian" typically refers to people of South Asian origin, in the census category this means those of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi heritage. There are also options for people of Chinese or other Asian ancestry - in which other South Asian backgrounds like Sri Lankan are included, as well as other Asian backgrounds, like Filipino, for example.
In 2016, the Welsh Assembly of the time (now Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru) was criticised for not having a "Welsh Asian" tick box for polling purposes on an equalities form issued in Wales, by the Welsh Assembly.
The second largest "high-level" ethnicity category in Wales in 2021 was “Asian, Asian Welsh or Asian British”. 89,000 people identified as this category, which is 2.9% of the Welsh population. This compares to 2.3% in 2011.
Asian Welsh people are people who live in Wales with Asian heritage, Welsh people of Asian heritage or people with mixed Asian and Welsh heritage. As with other parts of the United Kingdom, "Asian" typically refers to people of South Asian origin, in the census category this means those of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi heritage. There are also options for people of Chinese or other Asian ancestry - in which other South Asian backgrounds like Sri Lankan are included, as well as other Asian backgrounds, like Filipino, for example.
Demography
In 2016, the Welsh Assembly of the time (now Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru) was criticised for not having a "Welsh Asian" tick box for polling purposes on an equalities form issued in Wales, by the Welsh Assembly.
The second largest "high-level" ethnicity category in Wales in 2021 was “Asian, Asian Welsh or Asian British”. 89,000 people identified as this category, which is 2.9% of the Welsh population. This compares to 2.3% in 2011.
Notable Asian Welsh people
Acting and film
* Banita Sandhu *Danielle Bux
Danielle Maria Bux (born 15 June 1979) is a Welsh actress and model. She made her modelling début in 1999 winning a place on the Miss Hawaiian Tropic beauty pageant in Las Vegas. She was married to former England footballer Gary Lineker from ...
* Jessica Sula
* Sally El Hosaini
Art
*Alia Syed
Alia Syed (born 1964) is an experimental filmmaker and artist of Welsh-Indian descent.
Biography
Born in Swansea, Wales, Syed earned her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of East London in 1987 and a Postgraduate degree in Mixed Media f ...
Authors
*Shereen El Feki
Shereen El Feki ( ar, شيرين الفقي; born 1967 or 1968) is a British journalist and author, most notable for her book ''Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World''.
Biography
El Feki was born in Great Britain to a Wels ...
Business
*Shelim Hussain
Shelim Hussain (born 20 February 1973) is a Bangladeshi-born British entrepreneur, and founder, chairman and managing director of Euro Foods.
Early life
Hussain was born in Bangladesh and was brought to the United Kingdom by his uncle and aun ...
* Albert Gubay
Medical
*David Nott
David Malcolm Nott (born 1956) 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 ...
Politics
* Natasha Asghar * Mohammad Asghar *Neil McEvoy
Neil John McEvoy (born 1970) is a Welsh politician who represented the South Wales Central region in the Senedd from 2016 until 2021.
He was elected as Member of the Senedd, then known as the Welsh Assembly, on the Plaid Cymru regional list ...
Singing
* Andy Scott-Lee * Lisa Scott-LeeSport
*Neil Taylor (footballer)
Neil John Taylor (born 7 February 1989) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
A former Manchester City trainee, he began his career with Wrexham in 2007 and moved to Swansea City for an initial £150,000 in 2010 ...
* Prem Sisodiya
Prem Sisodiya (born 21 September 1998) is a Welsh cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Glamorgan in the 2018 County Championship on 20 June 2018. Prior to his first-class debut, he was part of England's squad for the 2018 Under-19 Crick ...
* Kishan Hirani
* Anoma Sooriyaarachchi
* Kieffer Moore
* Kaid Mohamed
* Barry Jones (boxer)
* Mika Chunuonsee
* Tom Ramasut
* Clive Rees
* Tal Dunne
Television and radio
* Jason Mohammad * Marc Edwards (TV presenter)Other
* Abbas Farid * Sabrina Cohen-Hatton * Shash AppanIn popular culture
The Indian Doctor, is a BBC comedy drama set in a 1960s Welsh mining village of Trefelin which shows the impact that a Delhi graduate has on the village.References