1. Waldo Williams (1904)

Welsh Poet

Twentieth-century poet whose Welsh-language poems include "Pa beth yw dyn?" ("What is it to be human?") and "Cofio" ("Remembering").

2. Angharad James (1677)

Welsh Poet

Angharad James was a farmer a harpist and a poet.

3. R. S. Thomas (1913)

Welsh Poet

Ronald Stuart Thomas published as R. S. Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest who was noted for his nationalism spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales....

4. Ieuan Dyfi (1461)

Welsh Poet

Ieuan Dyfi was a Welsh language poet.

5. Charles Symmons (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Charles Symmons was a Welsh poet and priest.

6. David Gwyn Williams (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Professor David Gwyn Williams usually known simply as Gwyn Williams was a Welsh poet novelist translator and academic. He was born in Port Talbot and educated at the University College...

7. William Williams (Crwys) (1875)

Welsh Poet

s better known by his bardic name of Crwys meaning Cross was a Welsh poet in the Welsh language. He served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from...

8. Simwnt Fychan (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Simwnt Fychan was a Welsh language poet and genealogist probably born in Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd in north-east Wales. He was a colleague of the poet and scholar Gruffudd Hiraethog. In...

9. Gwyn Thomas (1936)

Welsh Poet

10. Idris Davies (1905)

Welsh Poet

Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. Born in Rhymney near Caerphilly in South Wales Davies was the Welsh-speaking son of colliery chief winderman Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann....

11. Nantlais Williams (1874)

Welsh Poet

Nantlais Williams better known simply as Nantlais was a Welsh poet and a Presbyterian Christian leader during the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.

12. Anna Williams (poet) (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Anna Williams was a poet and companion of Samuel Johnson.

13. Gwilym R. Jones (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Gwilym Richard Jones was an editor and poet and the first person to have received all three major literary awards at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. The Eisteddfod is an...

14. Anna Laetitia Waring (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Anna Letitia Waring was a Welsh poet and hymn-writer. She was born at Plas-y-Felin Neath the daughter of Elijah Waring. Her family were Quakers but she became an Anglican...

15. Tudur Aled (1465)

Welsh Poet

Tudur Aled was a late medieval Welsh poet born in Llansannan Denbighshire. He is regarded as one of the finest poets of his period and was a master of cynghanedd....

16. Harri Webb (1920)

Welsh Poet

Harri Webb was an Anglo-Welsh poet Welsh nationalist journalist and librarian.

17. Henry Vaughan (1621)

Welsh Poet

Henry Vaughan was a Welsh author physician and metaphysical poet. Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his...

18. Siôn Tudur (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Siôn Tudur was a Welsh language poet of the Early Modern period. After serving as a yeoman in the courts of Edward VI and Mary Siôn returned to Wales where...

19. Eliseus Williams (1867)

Welsh Poet

Eliseus Williams better known by his bardic name Eifion Wyn was a Welsh language poet born at Porthmadog in Caernarfonshire Wales. The primary school in the town of Porthmadog where...

20. Dic Goodman (1920)

Welsh Poet

Richard Goodman Jones is a Welsh poet better known as Dic Goodman. He was a resident of Mynytho on the Llŷn Peninsula Gwynedd.

21. Ebenezer Thomas (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Ebenezer Thomas better known to Welsh speakers by his bardic name of Eben Fardd was a Welsh teacher and poet. Eben Fardd was born in Llanarmon Caernarvonshire the son of...

22. Thomas Evans (poet 1840–65) (1840)

Welsh Poet

Thomas Evans was a Welsh poet. Evans son of a ship-carpenter was born in Cardigan in 1840. His early education was very rudimentary. At the age of eleven he...

23. Gwyn Thomas (poet) (1936)

Welsh Poet

Professor Gwyn Thomas is a Welsh poet academic and a former National Poet of Wales. Born in Tanygrisiau Gwynedd and brought up there and in Blaenau Ffestiniog Thomas was educated...

24. Dewi Havhesp (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Dewi Havhesp was a Welsh poet.

25. Jane Williams (Ysgafell) (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Jane Williams was a Welsh writer often known by her bardic name of Ysgafell. She is sometimes confused with her contemporary Maria Jane Williams. She was born in Chelsea the...

26. John Edwards (1747–1792) (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

John Edwards was a Welsh poet. Edwards was born at Crogen Wladys in Glyn Ceiriog in 1747. He Owen Jones and Robert Hughes were the founders of Cymdeithas y...

27. Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) (1830)

Welsh Poet

Robert Williams usually referred to by his bardic name Trebor Mai was a Welsh language poet born in Llanrhychwyn near Llanrwst in the old county of Caernarfonshire north Wales. He...

28. Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) (1848)

Welsh Poet

Daniel James also known by his bardic name of Gwyrosydd was a Welsh poet and hymn-writer best known for writing the words to the popular hymn Calon Lân.

29. David Thomas (Dewi Hefin) (1828)

Welsh Poet

David Thomas was a Welsh poet and teacher.

30. William Thomas (Gwilym Marles) (Unknow)

Welsh Poet

Thomas better known by his bardic name of Gwilym Marles was a Welsh minister and poet and the great-uncle of Dylan Thomas. Dylan was given his middle name Marlais in...

31. John Walters (priest and poet) (1760)

Welsh Poet

John Walters was a Welsh Anglican priest and poet.