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  2. 100 Welsh Heroes - Wikipedia

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    100 Welsh Heroes was an opinion poll run in Wales as a response to the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons poll of 2002. It was carried out mainly on the internet, starting on 8 September 2003 and finishing on 23 February 2004. The results were announced on 1 March (St David's Day) 2004 and subsequently published in a book. [1]

  3. Simon Weston - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, he was named one of the top 100 Welsh heroes. [33] In 2005 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff University. [34] In 2006 Weston and dual code (Rugby league and Rugby union) international David Watkins were installed as patrons of the Wales Rugby League, in a ceremony held in the Welsh Assembly.

  4. J. P. R. Williams - Wikipedia

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    100 Welsh Heroes: #24 J.P.R. Williams at the Wayback Machine (archived 11 April 2008) Paul Doyle, The Guardian, 6 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 January 2008) J.P.R. Williams, full back, BBC News, 18 March 2005; Gavin Henson interview: J.P.R. Williams, The Observer, 6 November 2005

  5. Category:Lists of Welsh people - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Lists of Welsh people" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... 100 Welsh Heroes; A. List of Welsh Americans; B. Bishop of ...

  6. Aneurin Bevan - Wikipedia

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    The following year, Bevan was voted number one in the 100 Welsh Heroes poll, a response to find the public's favourite Welsh people of all time. [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Numerous institutions bear Bevan's name, including the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board , and Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan , a hospital located within his old Ebbw Vale constituency. [ 138 ]

  7. John Charles - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, Charles was voted at number 19 in the 100 Welsh Heroes poll. [22] On 7 March 2018, Charles had one of Great Western Railway's Intercity Express Trains named after him. [23] In August 2019, a social housing complex named "Clos John Charles" was opened on the site of a former primary school in Cwmbwrla, Swansea.

  8. 100 Greatest Britons - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth I was part of a Welsh royal house, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, were both Anglo-Irish in what is now the Republic of Ireland when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, and Alexander Fleming in 20th place was Scottish. [5] Only 13 of the 100 are women. Sixty had lived in the 20th century.

  9. List of Welsh people - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Welsh people (Welsh: rhestr Cymry); an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales.. Historian John Davies argues that the origin of the Welsh nation can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic or other Celtic languages seem to have been spoken in Wales since much earlier.