Wales is an

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

and

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

surname. Notable people with the surname include: *

B. Roger Wales Byron Roger Wales (July 17, 1879 – November 25, 1929) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was born on July 17, 1879, in Binghamton, Broome County, New York. He graduated from Binghamton High School in 1898; and from Col ...

(1879–1929), American politician *

Julia Grace Wales Julia Grace Wales (14 July 1881 – 15 July 1957) was a Canadian academic known for authoring the Wisconsin Plan, a proposal to set up a conference of intellectuals from neutral nations who would work to find a solution for the First World War. ...

(1881–1957), Canadian pacifist * Gary Wales (born 1979), Scottish footballer *

Howard Wales Howard Wales (February 8, 1943 – December 7, 2020) was an American keyboardist who worked in a wide variety of styles. He was a collaborator with Jerry Garcia in the early 1970s. Wales was a session player for many musical acts, including Ronn ...

(1943–2020), American musician *

Jane Wales Jane Wales (born 1948) is an American non-profit executive and former US government official who has served on the boards of directors of and founded many institutions. She is the Vice President of the Aspen Institute, and was the CEO of the World ...

(born 1948), American businesswoman *

Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known on Wikipedia by the pseudonym Jimbo, is an American-British Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedi ...

(born 1966), American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia * Josey Wales, Jamaican musician * Joseph Howe Wales (1907–2002), American ichthyologist *

Mary T. Wales Mary Tiffany Wales (1874–1952) was a college-educated teacher and co-founder of Johnson & Wales Business School in Providence, Rhode Island. Early life Mary Tiffany Wales was born in 1874 in Wilmington, Delaware. She attended Pennsylvania Stat ...

(1874–1952), American university founder *

Nathaniel B. Wales Nathaniel Brackett Wales (11 July 1883, Braintree, Massachusetts – November 15, 1974) was an American inventor credited with early patents on refrigerators, washers, vacuum cleaners, and co-inventor with his son of the proximity detonator used ...

(1883–1974), American physicist and inventor * Peter Wales (1928–2008), English cricketer *

Thomas C. Wales Thomas Crane Wales (June 23, 1952 – October 12, 2001) was an American federal prosecutor and gun control advocate who was the victim of an unsolved murder. In 2018, FBI investigators announced they strongly suspected the killing to have been ca ...

(1952–2001), American federal prosecutor and murder victim *

Wally Wales Floyd Taliaferro Alderson (November 13, 1895 – February 10, 1980) was an American film actor who specialized in westerns. After serving in the Great War, he began his career in the era of silent films, when he frequently used the name Wally ...

(1895–1980), American film actor born as Floyd Taliaferro Alderson * William Wales (1734–1798), English astronomer * William Wales (optician) (1838?–1907), English-American inventor

Fictional characters

* Josey Wales (character), a fictional character played by Clint Eastwood

Fictional characters

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