Religious Figures
- Saint Cadoc (born c. 497)
- Thomas Charles (1755–1814), Nonconformist minister
- David Davies (1741–1819) Clergyman and social historian
- Saint David (died 601?), patron saint of Wales
- Christmas Evans (1766–1838), Nonconformist minister
- Saints Philip Evans and John Lloyd, Roman Catholic priests and two of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
- Ann Griffiths (1776–1805), religious poet and hymn-writer
- David Griffiths (1792–1863), missionary to Madagascar, translator of the first Bible written in an African language
- Saint Richard Gwyn (c.1537–1584)
- Howell Harris (1714–1773), Methodist minister
- Saint Illtud (died mid-6th century)
- Bishop William Morgan (1545–1604), translator of the first complete Bible in Welsh (1588)
- Evan Roberts (1878–1950), Methodist preacher in the Welsh Revival
- John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) (1822–1877), Methodist preacher and hymn-writer
- Daniel Rowland (1713–1790), Methodist preacher in the Welsh Revival
- William Salesbury (c. 1520–1584?), Welsh translator of the New Testament
- Rowan Williams (born 1950), Archbishop of Canterbury appointed 2003
- William Williams Pantycelyn (1717–1791), hymn-writer
Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland
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