- 100 Welsh Heroes
100 Welsh Heroes was a poll run in
Wales as a response to theBBC 's100 Greatest Britons poll of2002 . The Welsh poll was carried out mainly on-line starting on the 8th September 2003 and finishing on the 23rd February 2004. The results were announced onSt David's Day , March 1st2004 .The poll was operated by
Culturenet Cymru Ltd . aWelsh Assembly funded body based at theNational Library of Wales inAberystwyth . The project was managed byJon Curtis , the Marketing Manager of Culturnet Cymru, with media work conducted byTM , a communications company based inCardiff . At the time of the results being announced the organisers claimed that the 81,323 nominations annd votes made it the largest online poll ever conducted inWales .The Top 100 were:
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Aneurin Bevan , politician (2426 votes) - 45 in the 100 Greatest Britons list
#Owain Glyndŵr , Prince of Wales (2309 votes) - 23 in the 100 Greatest Britons list
#Tom Jones, singer (2072 votes)
#Gwynfor Evans , politician (1928 votes)
#Richard Burton , actor (1755 votes) - 94 in the 100 Greatest Britons list
#Gareth Edwards , rugby player (1685 votes)
#Dylan Thomas , poet (1630 votes)
#David Lloyd George , politician (1627 votes) - 78 in the 100 Greatest Britons list
#Robert Owen , philanthropist and founder of socialism (1621 votes)
#Saunders Lewis , writer (1601 votes)
#Mike Peters, musician (1594 votes)
#Bertrand Russell , philosopher (1469 votes)
#Catherine Zeta-Jones , actress (1136 votes)
#R. S. Thomas , poet (898 votes)
#Andrew Vicari , artist (873 votes)
#Evan Roberts (816 votes)
#James Dean Bradfield , musician (790 votes)
#Bishop William Morgan (775 votes)
#John Charles , footballer (769 votes)
#Phil Campbell (763 votes)
#Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , Prince of Wales (564 votes)
#Ioan Gruffudd , actor (464 votes)
#Richey Edwards , musician (436 votes)
#J.P.R. Williams , rugby player (433 votes)
#Tanni Grey-Thompson , athlete (432 votes)
#Simon Weston , war hero (416 votes)
#John Evans (352 votes)
#Alfred Russel Wallace , scientist (313 votes)
#Michael D. Jones , founder of Patagonian community (284 votes)
#Dafydd ap Gwilym , poet (281 votes)
#ArchbishopRowan Williams (273 votes)
#Patrick Jones (260 votes)
#Julian Cayo-Evans, militant politician (257 votes)
#Tommy Cooper , comedian (219 votes)
#Roald Dahl (201 votes)
#John Frost , Chartist leader (187 votes)
#Hedd Wyn , poet (178 votes)
#Jimmy Wilde , boxer (177 votes)
#DrRichard Price , philosopher (171 votes)
#SirKyffin Williams , artist (170 votes)
#Kate Roberts , writer (167 votes)
#Roy Jenkins , politician (165 votes)
#Hywel Dda , king and law-giver (164 votes)
#Anthony Hopkins , actor (160 votes)
#Professor Steve Jones, biologist (159 votes)
#Saint David (158 votes)
#William Williams Pantycelyn (158 votes)
#Donald Davies , scientist (146 votes)
#Ron Davies, politician (145 votes)
#ProfessorBrian Josephson , Nobel Prize-winning scientist (144 votes)
#SirHenry Morton Stanley , explorer (143 votes)
#T. E. Lawrence , war hero (143 votes) - 53 in the 100 Greatest Britons list
#Henry VII of England (142 votes)
#Llywelyn ab Iorwerth , Prince of Wales (139 votes)
#Bryn Terfel , singer (138 votes)
#Dic Penderyn , political martyr (136 votes)
#Ian Rush , footballer (135 votes)
#Neil Kinnock , politician (135 votes)
#W. H. Davies , poet (135 votes)
#Mark Hughes , footballer (132 votes)
#SirClough Williams-Ellis , architect (120 votes)
#Bill Frost (120 votes)
#Dafydd Iwan , musician and politician (115 votes)
#Dr William Price, eccentric (114 votes)
#Elizabeth Phillips Hughes , educator (110 votes)
#Margaret Haig Thomas (108 votes)
#ProfessorClive Granger (107 votes)
#SirTerry Matthews , entrepreneur (95 votes)
#Howell Harris , religious leader (94 votes)
#King Arthur (92 votes) - 51 in the 100 Greatest Britons list
#Cerys Matthews , singer (88 votes)
#Laura Ashley , designer (87 votes)
#William Henry Preece (86 votes)
#David Davies, industrialist (81 votes)
#Thomas Jones (81 votes)
#Colin Jackson , athlete (77 votes)
#CaptainHenry Morgan , buccaneer (71 votes)
#Julien MacDonald , fashion designer (68 votes)
#Gwen John , artist (68 votes)
#Rhodri Mawr , king (64 votes)
#Iolo Morganwg , poet and author, inventor of the Eisteddfod format (63 votes)
#Alexander Cordell , novelist (63 votes)
#Owain Lawgoch , claimant to throne of Wales (62 votes)
#Dannie Abse , poet (62 votes)
#Gerald of Wales , bishop and writer (60 votes)
#Robert Recorde , mathematician (57 votes)
#David Edward Hughes (57 votes)
#Richard Amerik (57 votes)
#Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (57 votes)
#Richard Wilson, artist (56 votes)
#William Robert Grove (56 votes)
#Megan Lloyd George , politician (56 votes)
#John Jones (55 votes)
#Raymond Williams , writer (55 votes)
#John Cale ,musician (55 votes)
#Ernest Jones , psychiatrist (54 votes)
#Waldo Williams , poet (53 votes)
#The Lord Rhys (51 votes)
#Isaac Roberts (44 votes)
#Elizabeth Andrews (37 votes)External links
* [http://www.100welshheroes.com/en/homepage 100 Welsh Heroes]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3089886.stm BBC Article]
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