Welsh
Welsh may refer to:
Related to Wales
* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
* Welsh people
People
* Welsh (surname)
* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
origin, derived from ab Ifan meaning "son of
Evan
Evan is both an English and Welsh male given name derived from "Iefan", a Welsh form for the name John. In other languages it could be compared to " Ivan", " Ian", and " Juan"; the name John itself is derived from the ancient Hebrew name YΙhΓ΄α ...
" (Ifan being a variant of
Ieuan
Ieuan is one of several Welsh forms of the male given name John.
Famous people named Ieuan
*Saint Ieuan, 6th-century saint; there is a church dedicated to him in Llantrisant, on the Isle of Anglesey.
*Ieuan ab Owain GlyndΕ΅r (c. 1380 β c. 143 ...
, the Welsh equivalent of
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Secon ...
). Notable people with the name include:
First name
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Bevan Congdon
Bevan Ernest Congdon (11 February 1938 β 10 February 2018) was a New Zealand cricket all-rounder who played 61 Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals from 1965 to 1978, which included a spell as captain.
Captaincy
He was captain of the ...
(1938β2018), New Zealand cricketer
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Bevan Davies
Bevan Davies is an American musician best known as the drummer for the groups Still Rain, Madfly, Comes with the Fall and Danzig while he is currently a member of MonstrO, a group he formed with former members of Bloodsimple and Torche. Prev ...
, American musician
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Bevan Docherty
Bevan John Docherty (born 29 March 1977) is a triathlete from New Zealand, who won medals twice at the Olympic Games. Docherty attended Tauhara College, Taupo.
Life
Docherty and his sister Fiona grew up in Taupo, in the North Island of New ...
(born 1977), New Zealand athlete
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Bevan Dufty
Bevan Dufty (born February 27, 1955) is an American politician and Director of HOPE (Housing Opportunity, Partnerships and Engagement) for the City and County of San Francisco. In 2012, Dufty was elected to serve as a Member of the San Francis ...
(born 1955), American politician
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Bevan George
Bevan Christopher George (born 22 March 1977 in Narrogin, Western Australia) is a field hockey defender from Australia.
Field hockey
National team
George won a gold medal with the Australia national field hockey team (''The Kookaburras'') a ...
(born 1977), Australian hockey player
* Bevan Griggs (born 1978), New Zealand cricketer
* Bevan Hari (born 1975), New Zealand hockey player
* Bevan Meredith (1927β2019), Australian Anglican archbishop of Papua New Guinea
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Bevan Sharpless
Bevan Percival Sharpless (August 2, 1904 β October 28, 1950) was an American astronomer, best known for his 1944 discovery that the orbit of Phobos was decaying.
Early life
Sharpless was born to Ethel Mae Bevan and Albert Wayne Sharpless on A ...
(1904β1950), American astronomer
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Bevan Slattery
Bevan Andrew Slattery is an Australian technology entrepreneur who has built a number of businesses that handle data and telecommunications.
Early life
Bevan grew up in Rockhampton, Queensland, where he attended Frenchville State School. He g ...
, Australian technology entrepreneur
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Bevan Spencer von Einem
Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 29 May 1946) is a convicted child murderer and suspected serial killer from Adelaide, South Australia. An accountant by profession, he was convicted in 1984 for the murder of 15-year-old Adelaide teenager Richard ...
Alonza Bevan
Alonza George Bevan (born 24 October 1970) is an English musician who is the bassist for the English rock band Kula Shaker.
In between Kula Shaker splitting in 1999 and reforming in 2004, Bevan played in a number of groups including Johnny Marr' ...
(born 1970), English bass player
* Aneurin "Nye" Bevan (1897β1960), British Labour Party politician
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Benjamin Bevan
Benjamin Bevan (26 December 1773 — 2 July 1833) was a British civil engineer, noted for his proof of the equivalence of the elastic moduli of ice and water. He was a principal engineer on the Grand Junction Canal.
Bevan was born on Boxi ...
(1773β1833), British civil engineer
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Bev Bevan
Beverley Bevan (born 25 November 1944) is an English rock musician, who was the drummer and one of the original members of The Move and Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II.
Bevan also was drumm ...
(born 1945), English drummer
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Bill Bevan
William Arnold Bevan, Sr. (March 26, 1913 β August 26, 1975) was an American football player and coach. He played college football at the University of Minnesota and was a consensus selection at the guard position on the 1934 College Football ...
, American football player and coach
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Billy Bevan
Billy Bevan (born William Bevan Harris, 29 September 1887 – 26 November 1957) was an Australian-born vaudevillian, who became an American film actor. He appeared in more than 250 American films between 1916 and 1950.
Career
Bevan was bo ...
, Australian film actor
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Brian Bevan
Brian Eyrl Bevan (24 January 1924 β 3 June 1991), also known by the nickname of "Wing Wizard", was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s who became the only player ever to have been induc ...
Christopher Bevan
Christopher Bevan (born 9 April 1937) is a retired Rhodesian sailor. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the "Flying Dutchman" event, paired with Alan David Butler
Alan David Butler (23 October 1927 β July 1972) was a Rhodesian sai ...
(born 1937), Rhodesian sailor
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C. W. L. Bevan
Cecil Wilfrid Luscombe "Bill" Bevan, CBE (2 April 1920 β 19 April 1989) was a Welsh chemist, academic, and academic administrator. He was Principal of University College, Cardiff from 1966 to 1987. He was additionally Vice-Chancellor of the Un ...
(1920β1989), Welsh chemist and academic
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David Gilroy Bevan
Andrew David Gilroy Bevan (10 April 1928 β 12 October 1996) was a British Conservative politician.
He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 1979, until he lost the seat by 162 votes to future Labour minister Estelle Morris
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(1928β1996), English politician
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Donald Bevan
Donald Joseph Bevan (January 16, 1920 Holyoke, Massachusetts β May 29, 2013 Studio City, California) was an American playwright whose works include the Broadway play ''Stalag 17'', co-written with Edmund Trzcinski, and adapted as a movie in 195 ...
(1920β2013), American playwright and caricaturist
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Edward Bevan (disambiguation) Edward Bevan may refer to:
* Edward Bevan (physician) (1770β1860), apiarist and physician
* Edward Bevan (bishop) (1861β1934), Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
* Edward John Bevan (1856β1921), British chemist
* Edward Vaughan Bevan
Edward V ...
, multiple people
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Edward Bevan (physician)
Edward Bevan (8 July 1770, London β 31 January 1860, Hereford) was an English physician and apiarist, known for his 1827 treatise on honey bees (and a revised, enlarged edition in 1838).
Edward Bevan attended four years of grammar school in Wott ...
(1770β1860), apiarist and physician
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Edward Bevan (bishop)
Edward Latham Bevan (27 October 1861 βWho was Whoβ 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 β 2 February 1934) was a Welsh churchman, the inaugural Bishop of Swansea and Brecon from 1923 until his death, having previously been the final suffragan ...
(1861β1934), Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
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Edward John Bevan
Edward John Bevan (11 December 1856 β 17 October 1921) was an English chemist. He became a leader in the affairs of the Society of Public Analysts and editor of The Analyst.
Bevan was notable for his caustic wit. He was born in Birkenhead. Af ...
(1856β1921), British chemist
:* Edward Vaughan Bevan (1907β1988), British doctor and Olympic rowing
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Edwyn Bevan
Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA (15 February 1870 in London β 18 October 1943 in London) was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the Hellenistic world.
Life
Edwyn Robert Bevan was the fourteenth of sixteen children of Robert Cooper L ...
(1870β1943), English philosopher and historian
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Emily Bevan
Emily Grace Bevan (born 11 August 1982) is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in ''The Casual Vacancy'' and ''In the Flesh''.
Early life and education
Bevan was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively ...
(born 1982), English actress
* Frederick Bevan (1856β1939), singer and songwriter in UK and teacher in South Australia
* G. Phillips Bevan (1829β1889), English statistician
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Gloria Bevan
Gloria Isabel Bevan (20 July 1911 - 1998.) was an Australian-born New Zealand writer of romantic fiction.
Early life
Bevan was born on 20 July 1911 in Kalgoorlie, Australia, where her father was a mining engineer. When she was three years old, ...
, New Zealand writer
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Hal Bevan
Harold Joseph Bevan Jr. (November 15, 1930 β October 5, 1968) was an American professional baseball player.
A longtime minor league first baseman, catcher and third baseman, he was a pinch hitter and backup third baseman in Major League Basebal ...
(1930β1968), American baseballer
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Hilary Bevan Jones
Hilary Bevan Jones is a British television producer. In 1994 she started Endor Productions, choosing the name from that of the novel ''The Road to Endor'' by E. H. Jones, her grandfather.James Bevan (1856β1938), Wales rugby union captain
* James David Bevan (born 1959), British High Commissioner to India
* John Bevan (disambiguation), multiple people
:* John Bevan (cricketer) (1846β1918), Australian cricketer
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(born 1950), Welsh rugby union and rugby league player
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John Bevan (rugby union)
John David Bevan (12 March 1948 β 5 June 1986) was a Welsh international rugby union footballer, one of two John Bevans who played for Wales during the 1970s.
Bevan was born in Neath. He played for Aberavon RFC, the British Lions and The B ...
(1948β1986), Welsh international rugby union player
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John Bevan (politician)
John Bevan (1837 β 16 July 1911) was a 19th-century member of the House of Representatives. He was an auctioneer and merchant from Hokitika on the West Coast of New Zealand.
Early life and commercial career
Bevan was born in Jersey on the C ...
(1837β1911), New Zealand politician
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John Bevan (British Army officer)
Colonel John Henry "Johnny" Bevan (5 April 1894 β 3 December 1978) was a British Army officer who, during the Second World War, made an important contribution to military deception, culminating in Operation Bodyguard, the plan to conceal th ...
(1894β1978), World War II deception expert
:* John M. Bevan (1924β2000), American academic and innovator
:* John Bevan (figure skater) (born 1976), American figure skater
:* John Bevan (musician) (born 1938), English clarinettist, saxophonist, conductor
* Latalia Bevan (born 2001), Welsh gymnast
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Llewellyn David Bevan
Llewelyn David Bevan (11 September 1842 β 19 July 1918) was a Congregational church minister and academic active in Australia.Gunson, Niel;Bevan, Llewelyn David (1842 - 1918), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 7, Melbourne Universi ...
(1842β1918), Welsh Congregationalist minister in US and Australia
* Mary Ann Bevan (1874β1933), English sideshow attraction
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Matthew Bevan
Mathew Bevan (born 10 June 1974) is a British hacker from Cardiff, Wales. In 1996 he was arrested for hacking into secure U.S. Government networks under the handle Kuji. At the age of 21, he hacked into the files of the Griffiss Air Force Base R ...
(born 1973), British criminal
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Maurice Bevan
Maurice Bevan (10 March 1921 β 20 June 2006) was a British bass-baritone and composer, who sang with The Deller Consort (founded by Alfred Deller in 1948), St Paul's Cathedral in London, and the BBC.'' Daily Telegraph'' (21 July 2006)Obituary: ...
(1921β2006), British baritone and composer
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Michael Bevan
Michael Gwyl Bevan (born 8 May 1970) is a former Australian cricketer. He is a left-handed batsman and a slow left arm wrist-spin bowler. He has been credited for initiating the art of finishing matches. For several years, he was considered as ...
(born 1970), Australian cricketer
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Myer Bevan
Myer Stefan Major Bevan (born 23 April 1997) is a New Zealand professional footballer who plays as a forward for Canadian club Cavalry FC and the New Zealand national football team.
Club career Early career
Bevan played in his native New Ze ...
(born 1997), New Zealand footballer
* Natalie Bevan (1909β2007), British artist
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Nick Bevan
Nicholas Vaughan Bevan (21 February 1942 β 12 January 2014) was a leading British rowing coach and school headmaster.
Early life
Nick Bevan was born at the Limes Nursing Home in Shrewsbury, England, the son of David and Hilary Bevan. He was e ...
(1942β2014), British rowing coach and school headmaster
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Paul Bevan
Paul Bevan (born 27 September 1984) is an Australian rules football player with the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League (AFL).
Having grown up in Sydney, playing for Western Suburbs Magpies AFC in the Sydney AFL and the NSW/ AC ...
(born 1984), Australian footballer
* R. A. Bevan (1901β1974), advertising pioneer
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Robert Polhill Bevan
Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 β 8 July 1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group.
Early life
He was born in Bruns ...
(1865β1925), artist, father of R. A. Bevan
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Scott Bevan
Scott Anthony Bevan (born 19 September 1979) is a former professional footballer currently employed as the under-23s goalkeeping coach at Birmingham City.
Career Playing career
Bevan started his football career with Southampton as an associate ...
(born 1979), English footballer
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Scott Bevan (journalist)
Scott Bevan (born 1964 in Newcastle, New South Wales) is an Australian TV and radio presenter, journalist and biographer.
Biography
Scott Bevan grew up near Merewether in Newcastle. In 1984 he joined the '' Newcastle Herald'' as a cadet journalis ...
(born 1964), Australian journalist
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Sid Bevan
Thomas Sidney "Sid" Bevan (2 May 1877 β 17 October 1933) Scrum.com was a
(1877β1933), Wales and British Lions rugby union player
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Silvanus Bevan
Silvanus Bevan FRS (1691β8 June 1765) was an apothecary, who founded the London firm of Allen & Hanburys.
Biography
Early life
Silvanus Bevan was born in 1691 in Swansea, into a prosperous Welsh Quaker family. His father, who died in 1725, ...
(1691β1765), Welsh apothecary
* Stewart Bevan (1948β2022), British actor
* Thomas Bevan (cricketer) (1900β1942), English cricketer and British Army officer
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Tim Bevan
Timothy John Bevan, (born 20 December 1957) is a New Zealand-British film producer, the co-chairman (with Eric Fellner) of the production company Working Title Films.
Bevan and Fellner are the most successful British producers of their era ...
(born 1958), New Zealand film producer
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Tony Bevan (painter)
Tony Bevan (born 1951) is a British painter, known for his psychologically charged images of people at the edge of respectable society.
Biography
Bevan was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He studied at Bradford School of Art from 1968 to 1971, fol ...
(born 1951), painter
* Vince Bevan, Canadian policeman
*William Bevan aka
Burial (musician)
William Emmanuel Bevan, known by his recording alias Burial, is a British electronic musician from South London. Initially remaining anonymous, Burial became the first artist signed to Kode9's electronic label Hyperdub in 2005. He won acclaim t ...
, English electronic musician.
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William Bevan (sloopmaster) William Bevan ( fl. 1723β37) was an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and came to the Fort Albany on James Bay in 1723 from England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its wes ...
List of Liberty ships (SβZ)
This section of List of Liberty ships is a sortable list of Liberty shipsβ cargo ships built in the United States during World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that ...
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Beavan Beavan is a surname of Welsh origin, meaning "son of Evan". Notable people with the surname include:
* Blake Beavan (born 1989), American professional baseball player
* Colin Beavan (born 1963), American non-fiction writer and internet blogger
* Ch ...