Skip to content
Category

People from Ceredigion

page 1
Dafydd ap Gwilym
14th-century Welsh poet
Brioc
Brioc (Breton: Brieg; ; ; ; died late sixth century) was a 6th-century Welsh holy man who became the first abbot of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany. He is one of the seven founder saints of Brittany.
Jack Wolfe
British actor
Catrin Finch
Welsh harpist
Owen Thomas Jones
Welsh geologist (1878-1967)
Elin Jones
Welsh politician, Llywydd of the Senedd (born 1966)
John Thomas
Welsh photographer (1838-1905)
Hywel Teifi Edwards
Welsh historian and politician (1934-2010)
Carantoc
Saint Carannog (Old Welsh:Carantog; ; ; , also anglicised as Carantoc or Carantock) was a 6th-century Welsh saint, abbot and confessor. He is the founder of the Llan at Llangrannog in Ceredigion, Wales, as well as other monastic sites across Somerset, Cornwall, Brittany and Ireland.
C. E. Wynn-Williams
Welsh physicist (1903-1979)
Daniel Rowland
Welsh Calvinistic Methodist leader (1713–1790)
Simon Thomas
British politician (born 1963)
Menna Elfyn
Welsh poet
Sarah Jane Rees
Welsh poet, editor
David Jones
Welsh Christian missionary to Madagascar (1796-1841)
Evan Evans
Welsh scholar, poet and cleric, called "Ieuan Fardd" or "Ieuan Brydydd Hir"
Rhygyfarch
Rhygyfarch or Rhigyfarch (in contemporary late Old Welsh orthography Ricemarch, 1057–1099), eldest son of Sulien, whom he may have succeeded in 1091 as Bishop of St David's, was the author of the earliest surviving and standard Life of Saint David. The original text was written in Latin but was translated into Welsh later in the Middle Ages as Buchedd Dewi. The translation did much to enhance the cult status of Saint David in Wales and was in itself an important landmark in Medieval Welsh literature. He also wrote Latin poems, including one dealing with the different versions of the Psalter, a
Sulien
thumb|Plaque for Sulien, Llanbadarn Fawr Sulien was an 11th-century Bishop of St David's, for two periods (1073-1078 and 1079/80-1085/6). He died about 1090/1.
Julian Cayo-Evans
British activist
Dic Jones
Welsh poet and Archdruid (1934–2009)
Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth
British politician (1840–1935)