This website contains over five thousand concise biographies of individuals who have made a significant contribution to national life, whether in Wales or more widely.
An interactive Timeline of individuals in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography is now available. The timeline is powered using linked open data and openly licensed content hosted by Wikimedia.
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Paul Leroy Robeson (1898-1976)
This article shows the importance of Wales in the life and work of the famous African American actor Paul Robeson
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- JONES, TERENCE GRAHAM PARRY (1942 - 2020), actor, director, writer and popular historian
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- VAUGHAN, HILDA CAMPBELL (1892 - 1985), author
- ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist
- WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler
- ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario