1861 in Wales - Births

Births

• 1 January - John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist (died 1899)
• 2 January (in Oswestry) – William Henry Griffith Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1924)
• 22 March - Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player (died 1920)
• 7 April - Clara Novello Davies, singer (died 1943)
• 5 May - John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
• 31 July at Garneddwen - Alfred William Hughes, surgeon and founder of the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
• 10 September - Sir John Lynn-Thomas, surgeon (died 1939)
• 19 September - Evan Roberts, Wales international rugby player (died 1927)
• 26 October - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), writer (died 1947)
• 28 December - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player (died 1897)
• date unknown
  • Reginald Brooks-King, archer (died 1936)
  • William Stadden, rugby player (died 1906)
  • John Williams, politician (died 1922)