Famous people born in Merthyr Tydfil
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Huw Lewis
Huw Lewis AM is a Welsh Labour Cooperative politician. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Lewis has represented the Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney constituency since the National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999.....
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Howard Winstone
Howard Winstone, MBE was a Welsh world champion boxer, born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. As an amateur, Winstone won the Amateur Boxing Association bantamweight title in 1958, and a Commonwealth Games Gold Medal at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.....
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Laura Ashley
Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic English designs often with a 19thcentury rural feel and the use of natural fabrics.....
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Eddie Thomas
Eddie Thomas MBE , was a Welsh boxing champion and boxing manager.....
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Philip Madoc
Philip Madoc was a Welsh actor who had many television and film roles, including the lead role in the detective series A Mind to Kill, the eponymous hero of The Life and Times of David Lloyd George and famously, a Uboat captain in an episode of Dads Army.....
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Jack Jones novelist
Jack Jones CBE was a Welsh miner, Trade Union official, politician, novelist and playwright.....
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Geoffrey Olsen
Newport College of Art West of England College of Art Cardiff College of Art....
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Harry Goodwin cricketer
Harry Smyth Goodwin was a cricketer of the nineteenth century, born in Glamorgan, Wales but playing for Gloucestershire between 1896 and 1907. A righthanded batsman, Goodwin was an alumnus of Rossall School in Lancashire, for whom he played two matches in 1889. He played 31 matches for Gloucestershire, though aside from the 1897 cricket season he often played only a small number of games each year. He scored 564 runs at a batting average of 12.40, and a best of 46. He was later President of Hor....
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Gerrion Jones
Gerrion Jones a.k.a. Wacky is a Welsh art collector. He is best known for his curation of the Punk Forever exhibition which features artwork by Billy Childish, Jamie Reid and Jimmy Cauty.....
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Derek Prag
Derek Prag was a British Member of the European Parliament for Hertfordshire. He represented the European Peoples Party.....
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Barrie Bates
Barrie Bates is a Welsh darts player who played on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit. Born in Merthyr Tydfil, he currently resides in Bedlinog, MidGlamorgan. His original nickname was Batesy, but has since 2007 has been known as Champagne, because of his bubbly personality.....
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Alan David actor
Alan David is a Welsh television actor. Living in London, he is married with two sons.....
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Glyn Jones Welsh writer
Glyn Jones was a Welsh novelist, poet and literary historian, and an important figure in AngloWelsh literature. He served as both Chairman and President of the Welsh Academys Englishlanguage section. In his study, The Dragon Has Two Tongues , he discusses ways in which the period between the World Wars affected his generation of Welsh authors.....
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Howard King referee
Howard King is a former football referee in the English Football League and Premier League. He also served on the Welsh FIFA List. He was based in Merthyr Tydfil which was also home to Leo Callaghan, one of only three Welsh referees to control the English FA Cup Final.....
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