Inventors
- William Davies Evans (1790–1872)
- William Frost (1848–1935), amateur aviator
- William Robert Grove (1811–1896)
- John Jones (1645–1709)
- Adam Powell (born 1976), creator of Neopets
- William Henry Preece (1834–1913)
- Edwin Stevens (1905–1995), designed the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid
- Philip Vaughan (???? – ????), first design for a ball bearing in 1794
- Thomas Williams of Llanidan (1737–1802)
- Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833–1912), inventor of lawn tennis
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