For Welsh language poets prior to 1600, see

List of Welsh language poets Much of Welsh language poetry has, until quite recently, been composed in various forms of strict metre (''canu caeth''), latterly with the encouragement of the eisteddfod movement. The following list is as inclusive as possible for the years pr ...

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* Richard Ithamar Aaron (1901–1987) * William Ambrose (Emrys) (1813–1873) *

Gwynn ap Gwilym Gwynn ap Gwilym (1950 – 31 July 2016) was a Welsh poet, novelist, editor and translator. He was born in Bangor but raised in Machynlleth, in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. He was educated at University of Wales, University College, Galway and Wy ...

(1950–2016) * Charles Ashton (1848–1898)

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* William Ambrose Bebb (1894–1953) * Tom Beynon (1886–1961) *

John Blackwell (Alun) John Blackwell (1797 – 19 May 1840), who used the bardic name Alun, was a Welsh language poet. Life Blackwell was born near Mold, Flintshire, in north Wales, and followed the trade of a shoemaker. He won prizes offered for poems and essays ...

(1797–1841) *

Käthe Bosse-Griffiths Käthe Bosse-Griffiths (16 July 1910 – 4 April 1998) was an eminent Egyptologist. Born in Germany, she moved to Britain as a political refugee and married a Welshman. She became a writer in the Welsh language, and made a unique contributio ...

(1910–1998) * David James Bowen (1925–2017) *

Euros Bowen Euros Bowen (12 September 1904 – 2 April 1988) was a Welsh language poet and priest. Born in Treorchy, and a brother of the poet Geraint Bowen, he was educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and later at the University of Wales (in ...

(1904–1988) * Geraint Bowen (1915–2011) *

Siôn Bradford Siôn Bradford (1706–1785) was a Welsh language poet, from Betws, Tir Iarll, Glamorgan, in south Wales. Although a minor poet himself he is important as the poetic teacher of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg Edward Williams, better known ...

(1706–1785) * Robert Bryan (1858–1920)

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* Rhys Cadwaladr (

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1666–1690) * David Charles (1762–1834) * Thomas Charles (1755–1814) * Irma Chilton (1930–1990) * Morys Clynnog (1525–1581)

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* Aneirin Talfan Davies (1909–1980) * Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) *

Gareth Alban Davies Gareth Alban Davies (30 July 1926 – 9 February 2009) was a Welsh poet, educator and Hispanist who was Cowdray Professor of Spanish at the University of Leeds. Davies translated many Spanish texts into English and Welsh, and was a noted expe ...

(1926–2009) *

Grahame Davies Grahame Davies LVO (born 1964) is a poet, author, editor, librettist, literary critic and former journalist. He was brought up in the former coal mining village of Coedpoeth near Wrexham in north east Wales. Education After gaining a degree i ...

(born 1964) *

James Kitchener Davies James Kitchener Davies (16 June 1902 – 25 August 1952), also known as J. Kitchener Davies, was a Welsh poet and playwright who wrote mostly in the Welsh language. Davies's work is highly influenced by the industrial landscape of his adopted vil ...

(1902–1952) * John Davies (Dr John Davies, Mallwyd) (c. 1567–1644) *

John Cadvan Davies John Cadvan Davies (1846–1923) was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and a Welsh poet, who served as Archdruid. He is better known in Wales by his bardic name, Cadfan (sometimes Cadvan). Life and career Cadvan was born on a small farm, Yr Allt, i ...

(1846–1923) *

John Humphreys Davies John Humphreys Davies (15 April 1871 – 10 August 1926) was a Welsh lawyer, bibliographer and educator. He joined the movement to start a National Library of Wales. Family and schooling Born at Llangeitho, Ceredigion, he was the son of Robert ...

(1871–1926) * Lewis Davies (1863–1951) *

Pennar Davies William Thomas Pennar Davies (12 November 1911 – 29 December 1996) was a Welsh clergyman and author. Born William Thomas Davies, in Mountain Ash, the son of a miner, he took the name "Pennar" (a stream in Mountain Ash and the root of its Welsh ...

(1911–1996) * Richard Davies (c. 1501–1581) *

Richard Davies (Mynyddog) Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (10 January 1833 – 14 July 1877) was a popular Welsh-language poet, singer, and Eisteddfod conductor. The original source of the name Mynyddog is from Newydd Fynyddog, a hill near his home. Another submission is the ...

(1833–1877) * Thomas Glynne Davies (1926–1988) * Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) (1761–1849) * Robert Jones Derfel (1824–1905)

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* Aled Eames (1921–1996) *

Marion Eames Marion Eames (born Gwladys Marion Griffith Eames, 5 February 1921 – 3 April 2007)Dictionary of Welsh BiographRetrieved 29 September 2018./ref> was a Welsh novelist writing mainly in Welsh. She was also a talented musician. Biography Marion was ...

(1921–2007) * David Miall Edwards (1873–1941) *

Hywel Teifi Edwards Hywel Teifi Edwards (15 October 1934 – 4 January 2010) was a Welsh academic and historian, a prominent Welsh nationalist, a broadcaster and an author in the Welsh language. He was the father of the BBC journalist Huw Edwards. ...

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Lewis Edwards Lewis Edwards (27 October 1809 – 19 July 1887) was a Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister. Life He was born in Pen-llwyn, Ceredigion, Wales, the eldest son of Lewis and Margaret Edward. He was educated at Aberystwyth and at Llangeith ...

(1809–1887) * Owen Morgan Edwards (1858–1920) * Roger Edwards (1811–1886) * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) (1738–1810) * John Elias (1774–1841) *

Islwyn Ffowc Elis Islwyn Ffowc Elis (; 17 November 1924 – 22 January 2004) was one of Wales's most popular Welsh-language writers. Born Islwyn Ffoulkes Ellis in Wrexham and raised in Glyn Ceiriog, Elis was educated at the University of Wales colleges of Bangor ...

(1924–2004) * Robert Elis (Cynddelw) (1812–1875) *

Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Thomas Iorwerth Ellis OBE (19 December 1899 – 20 April 1970) was a Welsh classicist, who wrote many books on Welsh literature and Welshmen (in Welsh and English), including a biography of his father, Thomas Edward Ellis. Early life Ellis ...

(1899–1970) * Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848–1927) *

Christmas Evans Christmas Evans (25 December 1766 – 19 July 1838) was a Welsh nonconformist minister, described as "the greatest preacher that the Baptists have ever had in Great Britain." Life Evans was born near the village of Llandysul, Cardiganshire. Hi ...

(1776–1838) * Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) (1792–1846) * Daniel Silvan Evans (1818–1903) * David Emrys Evans (1891–1966) * Donald Evans (born 1940) * Ellis Humphrey Evans (Hedd Wyn) (1887–1917) *

Gwynfor Evans Gwynfor Richard Evans (1 September 1912 – 21 April 2005) was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. He was President of the Welsh political party Plaid Cymru for thirty-six years and was the first Member of Parliament to represent it at Westm ...

(1912–2005) * Hugh Evans (1854–1934) * John Evans (I.D. Ffraid) (1814–1875) *

Theophilus Evans Theophilus Evans (February 1693 – 11 September 1767) was a Welsh clergyman and historian. Life Evans' father was from Pen-y-wenallt and he was christened in the church in Llandygwydd in Cardiganshire in 1693. Evans served curacies in Breckno ...

(1693–1767) *

William Evans (Wil Ifan) William Evans (22 April 1883 – 16 July 1968), better known by his bardic name of Wil Ifan, was a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1947 to 1950. He was the son of Dan Evans, a Congregationalist ministe ...

(1883–1968) * Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) (1895–1970)

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* William Richard Philip George (1912–2006) *

John Gwyn Griffiths John Gwyn Griffiths (7 December 1911 – 15 June 2004) was a Welsh poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist who spent the largest span of his career lecturing at Swansea University. Early life Born in 1911 in Porth in the Rhondda ...

(1911–2004) *

Elis Gruffydd Elis Gruffydd (1490–1552), sometimes known as "The soldier of Calais Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de ...

(c. 1490 – c. 1552) *

Owen Gruffydd Owen Gruffydd (1643-1730) was a Welsh poet partly noted for a lament on the decline of the Welsh language in the early 18th century. Not much is known about Owen Gruffydd's early life and career except that he was born in the parish of Llanystum ...

(c. 1643–1730) * Robert Geraint Gruffydd (1928–2015) *

William John Gruffydd William John Gruffydd (14 February 1881 – 29 September 1954) was a Welsh scholar, poet, writer and editor, and the last Member of Parliament to represent the University of Wales seat. Gruffydd was elected to Parliament as a Liberal Member ...

(1881–1954) *

Bethan Gwanas Bethan Gwanas (real name Bethan Evans; born 16 January 1962) is a popular contemporary Welsh author, who publishes almost exclusively in the Welsh language. A prolific writer, she has had 17 titles published in the last decade. Whilst not just ...

(born 1962)

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* Joseph Harris (Gomer) (1773–1825) * Isaac Daniel Hooson (1880–1948) * Mererid Hopwood (born 1964) * Hugh Hughes (Y Bardd Coch o Fôn) (1693–1776) * John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–1887) * Jonathan Hughes (1721–1805) *

Richard Cyril Hughes Richard Cyril Hughes (1932 – 2022 was a Welsh educator, writer and historian. Hughes was born in Tara Street, Caergybi, Isle of Anglesey. A graduate and Masters from University of Wales Aberystwyth, he started his teaching career of Welsh ...

(born 1932) *

Thomas Rowland Hughes Thomas Rowland Hughes (often referred to as T. Rowland Hughes) (17 April 1903 – 24 October 1949), was a Welsh broadcaster, novelist, dramatist and poet. He was the son of a quarryman from Llanberis, Caernarvonshire (Gwynedd today), in north Wal ...

(1903–1949) * Edward Morgan Humphreys (1882–1955) *

Humphrey Humphreys Humphrey Humphreys (24 November 1648 – 20 November 1712) was successively Bishop of Bangor (1689–1701) and Bishop of Hereford (1701–1712). Life Born 24 November 1648 in Hendre, Penrhyndeudraeth, the eldest son of Richard Humphreys and M ...

(1648–1712)

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Dafydd Ifans Dafydd Ifans (born 21 April 1949) is a contemporary Welsh language novelist and translator, born in Aberystwyth in Ceredigion, west Wales. Personal life Dafydd Ifans was born in Aberystwyth, Wales in 1949. After finishing in Ysgol Gymraeg A ...

(born 1949)

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Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) Daniel James (23 January 1848 – 16 March 1920), also known by his bardic name of Gwyrosydd, was a Welsh poet and hymn-writer, best known for writing the words of the popular hymn, " Calon Lân" (published in 1892). Early life Daniel James ca ...

(1848–1920) * Edward James (c. 1569 – c. 1610) * Evan James (Ieuan ap Iago) (1809–1878) * David Jenkins (1912–2002) *

John Jenkins (Gwili) John Jenkins (8 October 1872 – 16 May 1936) was a Welsh poet and theologian. Known by his bardic name of Gwili, he served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1932 to 1936. Early life and education Gwili was born at Hendy i ...

(1872–1936) * Robert Thomas Jenkins (1881–1969) * John Thomas Job (1867–1938) * Bedwyr Lewis Jones (1933–1992) * Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll) (1803–1868) * David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1899–1968) * Elizabeth Watkin-Jones (1888–1966) * Gwilym Richard Jones (1903–1993) * Harri Pritchard Jones (1933–2015) * John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) (1766–1821) * John Jones (Ioan Tegid) (1792–1852) *

John Jones (Talhaiarn) John Jones (19 January 1810 – October 1869), known by his bardic name of Talhaiarn, was a Welsh poet and architect. Life and reputation Jones was born at the ''Harp Inn'' (now known as ''Hafod y Gân'') in Llanfair Talhaearn, Denbighshir ...

(1810–1869) * John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) (1836–1921) * John Robert Jones (1911–1970) * Lewis Jones (Patagonia) (1897–1939) * Richard Goodman Jones (Dic Goodman) (1920–2013) * Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (1848–1906) * Robert Maynard Jones (Bobi Jones) (1929–2017) * Thomas Jones (Dinbych) (1756–1820) * Thomas Gwynn Jones (1871–1949) * Thomas Llewelyn Jones (1915–2009) *

Morris Kyffin Morris Kyffin (c. 1555 – 2 January 1598) was a Welsh author and soldier, brother of the poet Edward Kyffin. He was also a student and friend of Doctor John Dee. Kyffin was a member of a literary circle that included the Queen's Godson Sir J ...

(c. 1555–1598)

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* Thomas Levi (1825–1916) * Alun Lewis (1915–1944) * Gwyneth Lewis * Henry Lewis (1889–1968) * Hywel David Lewis (1910–1992) *

Robyn Lewis Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, ''Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 t ...

(born 1929) *

Saunders Lewis Saunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis) (15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist, supporter of Welsh independence and was a co-found ...

(1893–1985)

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* John Lloyd-Jones (1885–1956) *

Alan Llwyd Alan Llwyd (born 1948), original name Alan Lloyd Roberts, is a Welsh poet, literary critic and editor. He is one of the most prolific Welsh-language poets in the last quarter of the 20th century. He is also known under the Bardic name Meilir Emr ...

(born 1948) * Angharad Llwyd (1780–1866) *

Morgan Llwyd Morgan Llwyd (1619 – 3 June 1659) was a Puritan Fifth Monarchist and Welsh language poet and prose author. Biography Morgan Llwyd was born to a cultured and influential family in the parish of Maentwrog, Gwynedd. His grandfather, ...

(1619–1659) * Robin Llywelyn (born 1958)

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* Dafydd Llwyd Mathau (fl. earlier 17th c.) * Wiliam Midleton (fl. 1550–1600) * Gareth Miles (born 1938) *

Derec Llwyd Morgan Derec Llwyd Morgan (born as Derek Lloyd Morgan; 15 November 1943) is a Welsh academic who is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Biography Morgan was educated at Amman Valley Grammar School, (now Ysgol Dyffryn A ...

(born 1943) *

Elena Puw Morgan Elena Puw Morgan (1900–1973, née Davies) was a Welsh writer. She became the first woman to win the Literary Medal at the National Eisteddfod, with the novel ''Y Graith'' (The Scar) in 1938. In addition to novels for an adult audience, Morgan ...

(1900–1973) * Eluned Morgan (1870–1938) * John Morgan (1688–1733) * Prys Morgan (born 1937) * William Morgan (1545–1604) * Lewis Morris (Llywelyn Ddu o Fôn) (1701–1765) * Richard Morris (1703–1779) *

John Morris-Jones Sir John Morris-Jones (17 October 1864 – 16 April 1929) was a Welsh grammarian, academic and Welsh-language poet. Morris-Jones was born John Jones, at Trefor in the parish of Llandrygarn, Anglesey the son of Morris Jones first a schoolmaster ...

(1864–1929)

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Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais) Thomas Evan Nicholas (6 October 1879 – 19 April 1971), who used the bardic name Niclas y Glais ( en, 'Nicholas of Glais'), was a Welsh language poet, preacher, radical, and champion of the disadvantaged of society. Early life Nicholas was b ...

(1879–1971)

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* Owain Owain (1929–1993) *

Robin Llwyd ab Owain Robin Llwyd ab Owain is a Welsh author, poet, and Wikipedian. He won the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1991. In 2013, he was appointed Wikimedia UK's first Wales Manager. He is the son of poet and writer Owain Owain. Writing In ...

(born 1959) * Daniel Owen (1836–1895) *

David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion) David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion) (1784 – 17 January 1841) was a Welsh poet and farmer. He is noted for developing two traditional Welsh verse forms: the awdl and the englyn. Conversion A dispute over an award, between him and members of the ...

(1784–1841) *

David Owen (Brutus) David Owen (December 1795 - 16 January 1866) known by the pseudonym Brutus, was a Welsh satirical writer, editor and preacher. He was born in Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire where he was brought up as a Congregationalist. Thereafter he spent perio ...

(1795–1866) *

Gerallt Lloyd Owen Gerallt Lloyd Owen (6 November 1944 – 15 July 2014) was a Welsh-language poet who lived in Llandwrog. He is considered to be one of Wales's leading "strict-metre" poets. Works Owen began as a "political poet" in the 1960s, often using medieva ...

(born 1944) * Goronwy Owen (Goronwy Ddu o Fôn) (1723–1769) *

William David Owen William David Owen (21 October 1874 – 4 November 1925), born William Owen, was a Welsh author best known for his novel ''Madam Wen'' (White Lady). Publications ''Madam Wen'' was published in book form in 1925, but it had first appeared a ...

(1874–1925) *

William Owen Pughe William Owen Pughe (7 August 1759 – 4 June 1835) was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his ''Welsh and English Dictionary'', published in 1803, but also known for his grammar books and "Pughisms" (neologisms)."The Inventi ...

(1759–1835)

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Gwenlyn Parry William Gwenlyn Parry (8 June 1932 – 5 November 1991) was a Welsh dramatist, the author of several plays in Welsh, including ''Saer Doliau'' (1966), ''Ty ar y Tywod'' (1968), ''Y Ffin (1973), ''Panto'', ''Sal'' and ''Y Tŵr'' (1978). Early lif ...

(1932–1991) * John Parry (1776–1851) * Robert Parry (1540–1612) * Robert Williams Parry (1884–1956) *

Thomas Parry Thomas Parry may refer to: * Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household) (c. 1515–1560), serving Queen Elizabeth I of England * Thomas Parry (ambassador) (1541–1616), English MP, ambassador to France and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster * T ...

(1904–1985) * Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams (1887–1975) * Meirion Pennar (1944–2010) * John Price (1502–1555) * Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) (1787–1848) * Caradog Prichard (1904–1980) * Rhys Prichard (Yr Hen Ficer) (1579–1644) *

Edmwnd Prys Edmund (Edmwnd) Prys (1542/3 – 1623) was a Welsh clergyman and poet, best known for Welsh metrical translations of the Psalms in his ''Salmau Cân''. Life Prys was born in Llanrwst, Denbighshire 1542 or 1543, son of Siôn ap Rhys ap Gru ...

(1543–1623) *

Gwilym Puw Captain Gwilym Puw (sometimes anglicised as William Pugh) (c. 1618 – c. 1689) was a Welsh Catholic and Cavalier poet and Royalist officer from a prominent Recusant family from the Creuddyn Peninsula in north Wales. He was a prolific author of ...

(c. 1618 – c. 1689)

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Eluned Phillips Eluned Phillips (27 October 1914 – 10 January 2009) was the only woman to win the bardic crown at the National Eisteddfod of Wales twice, a feat she accomplished in 1967 at Bala and 1983 at Llangefni. Phillips was born in Cenarth, on the same ...

(1914-2009)

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Evan Rees (Dyfed) Evan Rees (1 January 1850 – 19 March 1923), known by the bardic name Dyfed, was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales. Life Rees was born at Puncheston, Pembrokeshire, the son of James and Eun ...

(1850–1923) * Ioan Bowen Rees (1929–1999) *

Thomas Rees Thomas Rees may refer to: Religious figures * Thomas Rees (Congregational minister) (1815–1885), Welsh Congregationalist minister * (1869–1926), Welsh theologian and editor, principal of Bala-Bangor Independent College, see 1926 in Wales * ...

(1815–1885) * Thomas Ifor Rees (1890–1977) *

William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) William Rees (8 November 1802 – 8 November 1883), usually known in Wales by his bardic name of Gwilym Hiraethog, was a Welsh poet and author, one of the major figures of Welsh literature during the 19th century. Gwilym Hiraethog took h ...

David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) David Richards (22 January 1751 – 12 May 1827), better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born at Glanyrafon near Bryn-crug in the parish of Tywyn in Merionethshire (now Gwynedd), north-west Wales. He took an ...

(1751–1827) * Thomas Richards (1878–1962) *

Gruffydd Robert Gruffydd Robert (1527–98) was a Welsh Catholic priest and humanist scholar who in 1567 wrote a pioneering Welsh grammar while in exile in Italy with his uncle and fellow-writer Morys Clynnog. Life Gruffydd Robert was born in Caernarfonshire ( ...

(before 1532 – after 1598) * Brynley Francis Roberts (born 1931) * David Roberts (Dewi Havhesp) (1831–1884) * Emrys Roberts (1929–2012) * Kate Roberts (1891–1985) * Samuel Roberts (writer) (1800–1885) * Wiliam Owen Roberts (born 1960) * Dafydd Rowlands (1931–2001) * John Rowlands (author) (born 1938) *

William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) William Rowlands (1802–1865), known as Gwylym Lleyn, was a Welsh bibliographer and Methodist minister. Life The son of Thomas and Eleanor Rowlands, he was born at Bryn Croes, Carnarvonshire, on 24 August 1802. After a little schooling at Bryn ...

(1802–1865)

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* Edward Prosser Rhys (1901–1945) *

Morgan Rhys Morgan Rhys (1 April 1716 – 9 August 1779) was a Welsh hymn-writer. Rhys was born in Cilycwm as one of six or seven children of Rhys and Anne Lewis. At first one of Griffith Jones's travelling schoolmasters, he afterwards kept school on hi ...

(1716–1779) * Siôn Dafydd Rhys (1534 – c. 1609)

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* William Salesbury (c. 1520 – c. 1584) * William Saunders (1806–1851) *

Simwnt Fychan Simwnt Fychan (c. 1530 – 1606) was a Welsh language poet and genealogist, probably born in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd in north-east Wales. He was a colleague of the poet and scholar Gruffudd Hiraethog. In 1567 Queen Elizabeth I of England appoint ...

(c. 1530–1606)

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* David Thomas (Dewi Hefin) (1828–1909) * David Thomas (1880–1967) * Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) (1802–1863) * Gwyn Thomas (1936–2016) * Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan) (1809–1880) * Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913–2000) *

William Thomas (Islwyn) William Thomas, bardic name Islwyn (3 April 1832 – 20 November 1878), was a Welsh language poet and Christian clergyman. His best known poems were both called ''Yr Ystorm'' The Storm' and were written in response to the sudden death of his fi ...

(1832–1878) *

William Thomas (Gwilym Marles) William Thomas (1834 – 11 December 1879), better known by his bardic name of Gwilym Marles, was a Wales, Welsh minister and poet, and the great-uncle of Dylan Thomas. Dylan was given his middle name, "Marlais", in honour of William Thomas, ...

(1834–1879) *

Angharad Tomos Angharad Tomos (born 19 July 1958) is a Welsh author and prominent language activist. She is a recipient of the Tir na n-Og Award. Biography Tomos was born in Bangor, Gwynedd, in 1958, and raised with her four sisters in Llanwnda near Caerna ...

(born 1958)

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* Urien Wiliam (born 1929) * Colin H Williams (born 1950) * David John Williams (1885–1970) * Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (1747–1826) * Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn) (1867–1926) * Gareth F. Williams (1955–2016) *

Glanmor Williams Sir Glanmor Williams (5 May 1920 – 24 February 2005) was one of Wales's most eminent historians. Sir Glanmor was born in Dowlais, into a working-class family, and was educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School in Merthyr Tydfil. He studied ...

(1920–2005 ) * Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) (1769–1838) * Gwynne Williams (born 1937) *

Ifor Williams Sir Ifor Williams, (16 April 1881 – 4 November 1965) was a Welsh scholar who laid the foundations for the academic study of Old Welsh, particularly early Welsh poetry. Early life and education Ifor Williams was born at Pendinas, Tregarth near ...

(1881–1965) *

John Ellis Williams John Ellis Williams, (20 August 1924 – 7 December 2008), novelist and writer from Caernarfonshire, wrote in Welsh and in English. Life Williams was born in Llanddeiniolen on 20 August 1924 into a farming family. In World War II Williams ser ...

(born 1924) * John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945) * John Owen Williams (Pedrog) (1892–1973) * John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy) (1867–1924) *

Morris Williams (Nicander) Morris Williams (20 August 1809 – 3 January 1874), was a Welsh clergyman and writer, commonly known by his bardic name Nicander. He worked on the Welsh Prayer Book of 1841 and himself produced a metrical Welsh Psalms of David. Early life Will ...

(1809–1874) * Moses Williams (1685–1742) *

Owen Williams (Owen Gwyrfai) Owen Williams (January 1790 – 3 October 1874), also known as Owain Gwyrfai, was a Welsh antiquary and the author of a Welsh dictionary. Biography Owen Williams was born on the Plas Glan'rafon estate, Waunfawr in January 1790 and was christe ...

(1790–1874) * Peter Bailey Williams (1763–1836) * Richard Bryn Williams (1902–1981) * Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan) (c. 1878–1919) * Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu) (1766–1850) * Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830–1877) * Robert Dewi Williams (1870–1955) *

Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) Reverend Rowland Williams (March 1823 – 10 November 1905), commonly known by his bardic name "Hwfa Môn", was a Welsh clergyman and poet, who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1895 to 1905. Early life and education ...

(1823–1905) *

Rhydwen Williams Robert Rhydwenfro Williams (29 August 1916 – 2 August 1997) was a Welsh poet, novelist and Baptist minister. His work is mainly written in his native Welsh language, and is noted for adapting the established style and context of Welsh poetry fro ...

(1916–1997) * Thomas Marchant Williams (1845–1914) * Waldo Williams (1904–1971) * William Williams (Pantycelyn) (1717–1791) * William Williams (Caledfryn) (1801–1869) * William Williams (Creuddynfab) (1814–1869) * William Williams (Crwys) (1875–1968) * William Llewelyn Williams (1867–1922) *

Ellis Wynne Ellis Wynne (7 March 1671 – 13 July 1734) was a Welsh clergyman and author. He is remembered mainly for one of the most important and influential pieces of Welsh-language literature. Life Born in Lasynys Fawr () near Harlech, Gwynedd, Wynn ...

(1671–1734) * Eirug Wyn (1950–2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Welsh-language authors

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