Cornish-speaking people

last known native speaker of the Cornish language prior to its revival in 1904

Gwenno Mererid Saunders (born 23 May 1981) is a Welsh-Cornish musician, known mononymously as Gwenno, who has received critical acclaim in the UK. After a series of EPs, she released four albums as a solo artist: (2014), a Welsh Music Prize winner; Le Kov (2018), her first album in Cornish; (2022), which was shortlisted for the Mercury Prize; and Utopia (2025).

British Celticist (1848–1934)

British diplomat (born 1955)

Cornish poet and linguist

Cornish writer and nautical archaeologist (1873–1959)

British politician (born 1958)

Cornish poet and singer

medieval English writer and translator

Cornish-language activist

Cornish writer

English author and artist

Cornish writer and historian

Cornish farmer, one of the last Cornish speakers (1812–1891)

British activist (1911-1997)

Cornish Franciscan scholastic philosopher and theologian

Cornish writer

Christian scholar and teacher

Last speaker of Cornish

Cornish poet

Grand-Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh 2003-05