List of Sons and Daughters of the City of Cardiff
The following is a list of Cardiff- born personalities, listed chronologically by year of birth. It is irrelevant whether or not the people later had their sphere of activity in Cardiff. Many have moved from Cardiff in the course of their lives and become known elsewhere. The list does not claim to be complete.
Cardiff-born personalities
To 1900
- DW Davis (1873-1959), politician
- Eleanor Vachell (1879–1948), botanist
- Edward V. Robertson (1881–1963), politician
- Paul Radmilovic (1886–1968), water polo player and swimmer
- David Jacobs (1888–1976), track and field athlete
- Howard Spring (1889–1965), writer and journalist
- Ivor Novello (1893–1951), entertainer
1901 to 1950
- Jim Sullivan (1903-1977), rugby league player
- Roy Evans (1909–1998), table tennis player and official
- Alec Templeton (1909–1963), composer and pianist
- Merlyn Oliver Evans (1910–1973), painter and printmaker
- Tessie O'Shea (1913–1995), actress and singer
- Ronald Stuart Thomas (1913–2000), poet and clergyman
- Roald Dahl (1916–1990), writer
- David Stanley Evans (1916-2004), astronomer
- Leo Abse (1917–2008), lawyer, politician and author
- Dannie Abse (1923–2014), writer and poet
- Geoffrey Eglinton (1927-2016), chemist
- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone (1928-2015), politician
- Bernice Rubens (1928–2004), writer
- Bobi Jones (1929-2017), writer
- Ivor Richard (1932–2018), politician
- Michael Baxandall (1933–2008), art historian
- Norman Solomon (* 1933), rabbi, lecturer and author
- Billy Boston (born 1934), rugby league player
- Joe Erskine (1934-1990), boxer
- Anna Kashfi (1934-2015), film actress
- Andrew Davies (born 1936), writer and screenwriter
- Shirley Bassey (born 1937), singer
- Richard Marquand (1937–1987), film director, screenwriter and film producer
- Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (1938–2018), politician (Conservative Party, later Labor Party)
- Rhodri Morgan (1939–2017), Labor Party politician
- David Broome (* 1940), show jumper
- Brian D. Josephson (* 1940), physicist
- Robert D. Anderson (* 1942), historian
- Gil Reece (1942-2003), football player
- Howard Stringer (born 1942), manager
- Craig Thomas (1942-2011), author
- Dave Edmunds (* 1944), guitarist and singer
- Gomer Edwin Evans (* 1947), musician and composer
- Graham Bool (1948-2010), wheelchair basketball player and photographer
- Andy Fairweather-Low (born 1948), guitarist and singer
- Shakin 'Stevens (born 1948), rock and roll singer
- Ken Follett (born 1949), writer
- Angharad Rees (1949–2012), actress
- John Toshack (* 1949), football player and coach
- JPR Williams (born 1949), rugby union player
- Terry Yorath (* 1950), soccer player and coach
From 1951
- Cheryl Gillan (* 1952), politician
- Chris Hann (* 1953), social anthropologist and ethnologist
- Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953) is a writer, comedian, actor, producer and director
- Pino Palladino (* 1957), bassist
- Ross Lovegrove (* 1958), industrial designer
- Jonathan Myerson (* 1960), writer, radio play and screenwriter, journalist and former local politician
- Chris Bryant (* 1962), politician (Labor Party)
- Peter Wingfield (born 1962), actor
- Ian Barker (born 1966), regatta sailor
- Sally Hodge (* 1966), racing cyclist
- Andrew Hourmont (* 1966), founder, managing director and creative head of Blue Wings GmbH
- Colin Jackson (born 1967), track and field athlete
- Eluned Morgan (* 1967), politician
- Mel Rees (1967-1993), football player
- Tanni Gray-Thompson, Baroness Gray-Thompson (born 1969), track and field athlete
- Andrew Howard (born 1969), actor
- Gareth Llewellyn (born 1969), rugby union player
- Cerys Matthews (* 1969), singer and songwriter
- Andy Bell (* 1970), musician
- Ryan Giggs (born 1973), football player
- Ioan Gruffudd (* 1973), actor
- Donna Lewis (* 1973), pop singer
- Justin Kerrigan (born 1974), screenwriter and director
- Matthew Rhys (born 1974), actor
- James Fox (* 1976), singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
- Craig Bellamy (born 1979), football player
- Matthew Elias (* 1979), hurdler and sprinter
- Christian Malcolm (* 1979), track and field athlete
- Kelle Marie (* 1980), model and porn actress
- Timothy Benjamin (* 1982), sprinter
- Nicky Robinson (born 1982), rugby union player
- Robin Sowden-Taylor (born 1982), rugby union player
- John Yapp (born 1983), rugby union player
- Tom James (* 1984), rower
- Rhys Williams (* 1984), athlete
- Chris Czekaj (born 1985), rugby union player
- Geraint Thomas (* 1986), track and road cyclist
- Joe Ledley (born 1987), soccer player
- Hannah Mills (* 1988), regatta sailor
- Matthew Rowe (* 1988), track and road cyclist
- Sam Warburton (born 1988), rugby union player
- Gareth Bale (born 1989), soccer player
- Luke Rowe (* 1990), track and road cyclist
- Elinor Barker (* 1994), cyclist
- Regan Poole (* 1998), football player