Famous people born in Carmarthenshire
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Andrew Davies darts player
Andrew Robert Davies is a former Welsh darts player who played under the Professional Darts Corporation .....
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Iwan Rheon
Iwan Rheon is a Welsh actor, singer and musician, best known for portraying Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits and Ash Weston in the ITV sitcom Vicious.....
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Gareth Hughes
Gareth Hughes was a Welsh stage and silent screen actor. Usually cast as a callow, sensitive hero in Hollywood silent films, Hughes got his start on stage during childhood and continued to play youthful leads on Broadway.....
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Elmer Rees
Elmer Gethin Rees, CBE, FRSE is a mathematician with publications in area ranging from topology, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, linear algebra and Morse theory to robotics. He held the post of Director of the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, a partnership between Bristol University and the British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, from its creation in 2005 until 2009.....
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Donald Swann
Donald Ibrahm Swann was a Welsh composer, musician and entertainer. He is best known to the general public for his partnership of writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders as one half of Flanders and Swann.....
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Ivor Rees
Ivor Rees VC was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth forces.....
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Bridget Bevan
Bridget Bevan , also known as Madam Bevan, was a Welsh educationalist and public benefactor. She was the chief supporter of the educational work of the evangelical Anglican priest Griffith Jones and the system of circulating schools they founded.....
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Alfred Pullin
Alfred William Pullin, known by the pseudonym Old Ebor , was a British sports journalist who wrote primarily about rugby union and cricket. He wrote mainly for British newspapers the Yorkshire Post and the Yorkshire Evening Post. Considered by critics to be one of the greatest authorities in the country on his two sports, he wrote a daily column using his pseudonym Old Ebor for 40160years. Most often associated with his reporting on Yorkshire County Cricket Club, he has been credited as defining....
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James Ira Thomas Jones
James Ira Thomas Taffy Jones DSO, MC, DFC amp Bar, MM was a British flying ace during the First World War. Jones was born on 18 April 1896 at Woolstone Farm, near St. Clears, Carmarthenshire. In 1913, Jones enlisted in the Territorial Army, though he was soon transferred into the newly established Royal Flying Corps. serving as an air mechanic on ground duties before volunteering for flying duties as an Observer. Jones commenced pilot training in August 1917 after being commissioned. After co....
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Ivor Richard Baron Richard
Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard PC QC , is a British politician belonging to the Labour Party and former member of the Commission of the European Communities.....
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David James Davies
Dr. D.J. Davies , was a Welsh economist, industrialist, prize winning essayist, author, political activist, pilot, and an internationalist. Davies was a world traveller before returning home to Wales.....
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