Notable People From Betws
- Balladeer, Donald Peers, was brought up in Heol-y-felin.
- Jim Griffiths, first Secretary of State for Wales and MP for Llanelli lived at the corner of Pentwyn Road and Park Street, where his father William was the village blacksmith (an anvil stands outside the house that occupies the site today). His elder brother David Rees Griffiths found fame as the poet Amanwy.
- Ivor Richard, Baron Richard was born in Betws and attended Betws Primary School.
- Henry Grindell "Death Ray" Matthews had a laboratory on Betws mountain from 1934 until his death in 1941.
- Terry Magee, charity volunteer and former boxer.
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