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Ernest Jones
Welsh psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1879–1958)

Asser
Asser (; ; died 909) was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s. About 885 he was asked by Alfred the Great to leave St David's and join the circle of learned men whom Alfred was recruiting for his court. After spending a year at Caerwent because of illness, Asser accepted.
Chris Bryant
British politician and MP (born 1962)
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