Military Men and Women
- Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare KBE, served in World War II, later active politician and Privy Councillor
- Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel, better known as Dafydd Gam (c. 1380–1415), prominent opponent of Owain Glyndŵr
- Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn (1908–2003) honoured as an MBE after the invasion of Sicily in World War II
- Hugh Evan-Thomas (1862–1928), Royal Navy Vice-Admiral
- Ellis Humphrey Evans ("Hedd Wyn"), celebrated poet, died in the Third Battle of Ypres during World War I
- William Charles Fuller VC (1884–1974), first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross during World War I
- T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (1888–1935), soldier
- Hubert William Lewis VC (1896–1977)
- John Wallace Linton VC, Royal Navy Commander
- Owain Lawgoch or Yvain de Galles (c. 1300–1378), mercenary and titular Prince of Wales
- Sir Thomas Picton, (1758–1815), Lieutenant-General
- Simon Weston (born 1961), soldier and broadcaster
- John Williams VC (1857–1932), born John Fielding
- Roger Williams (c. 1537–1595), soldier
- Tasker Watkins VC GBE (Major) (1918 – 2007), first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II, former President of the Welsh Rugby Union and former Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice
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Famous quotes containing the words men and women, military, men and/or women:
“Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.”
—Eleanor Bron (b.1934)
“[I]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an
evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the
sons of men snared in an evil time,”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 12)
“The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)