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Geraint Thomas MBE, cycling. <\/strong>The first Welshman to win the Tour De France (2018) and a two-time gold medalist, he rides for Team Sky, Wales and Great Britain.<\/p>\n Ian Rush MBE, football. <\/strong>The all-time leading goal scorer for Liverpool Football Club, having scored a total of 346 goals in all competitions during his two spells.<\/p>\n Lynn ‘the Leap’ Davies CBE, long jump. <\/strong>Gold medallist in the 1964 Summer Olympics, the only Welsh athlete to have won gold in an individual Olympic track and field event.<\/p>\n Gareth Edwards CBE, rugby. <\/strong>The first Welsh player to reach 50 caps for Wales, he was part of three Grand Slam wins for Wales by the time he reached the age of 30.<\/p>\n Shane Williams MBE, rugby. <\/strong>The record Rugby Union try scorer for Wales and one of the world’s leading Rugby Union test try scorers of all time.<\/p>\n Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE, DL, wheelchair track. <\/strong>One of the world\u2019s most successful Paralympians, winning 16 Paralympic medals between 1988 and 2004.<\/p>\n Colin Jackson CBE, 100m hurdles. <\/strong>Once world record holder for 13 years, he has been the world champion, European champion and Commonwealth champion.<\/p>\n Joe Calzaghe CBE, boxing. <\/strong>Now retired, Calzaghe is widely regarded as the best British boxer of all time, once undefeated after 46 professional fights and over 10 years as World Champion.<\/p>\n Ian Woosnam OBE, golf. <\/strong> \u200bWon more professional golf tournaments than any other British golfer, including over 45 worldwide tournament victories.<\/p>\n Mark Williams MBE, snooker. <\/strong>Three-time World Championship winner and winner of the Triple Crown of snooker trophies for 2002-03.<\/p>\n David Roberts CBE, swimming. <\/strong>11-time Paralympic gold medallist considered one of Great Britain’s most successful Paralympians ever.<\/p>\n Jade Jones MBE, taekwondo. <\/strong>Two-time Olympic gold medalist (2012, 2018).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wales.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Geraint Thomas MBE, cycling. The first Welshman to win the Tour De France (2018) and a two-time gold medalist, he rides for Team Sky, Wales and Great Britain. Ian Rush MBE, football. The all-time leading goal scorer for Liverpool Football Club, having scored a total of 346 goals in all competitions during his two spells. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Welsh-celebrities-and-famous-people.webp-scaled.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181311,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181309\/revisions\/2181311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}