Andrew Vicari (1938–2016), painter Bedwyr Williams (born 1974), installation and performance artist Kyffin Williams (1918–2006), painter Richard Wilson (1714–1782), painter Nathan Wyburn (born 1989), food artist Ernest Zobole (1927–1999), painter Designers Laura Ashley (1925–1985) Jeff Banks (born 1943) David Emanuel (born 1952) Timothy Everest (born 1961) Ross Lovegrove (born 1958) Julien Macdonald (born 1971) Tommy Nutter (1943–1992) Jayne Pierson (born 1969/1970) Mary Quant (born 1934) Entrepreneurs Richard ap Meryk (or ap Meurig), Anglicised to Richard Amerike (or Ameryk) (c. 1445–1503), after whom America is reputed to be named Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley (1883–1968), newspaper publisher William Berry, 1st Viscount Camrose (1879–1954), newspaper publisher Joe Blackman (born c. 1984), events and entertainment industry entrepreneur David Davies Llandinam (1818–1890), industrialist Griffith J. Griffith (1850–1919), mining millionaire John Josiah Guest (1785–1852), ironmaster John Hughes (1814–1889), businessman and founder of the city of Donetsk, Ukraine Sir William Thomas Lewis (1837–1914), coalowner Terry Matthews (born 1943), telecommunications billionaire, owner of Celtic Manor Resort Michael Moritz (born 1962), investor Charles Stewart Rolls (1877–1910), motor car manufacturer and aviator Howard Stringer (born 1942), businessman David Sullivan (born 1949), publisher David Alfred Thomas (1856–1918), industrialist Explorers Perce Blackborow (1896–1949) John Evans (1770–1799) George Everest (1790–1866) Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) Film directors Kevin Allen (born 1962) Gareth Evans (born 1980) John Evans (born 1980) Marc Evans (born 1963) Peter Greenaway (born 1942) Terry Jones (1942–2020) Justin Kerrigan (born 1974) Richard Marquand (1938–1987) Julian Richards (born 1968) Sara Sugarman (born 1962) Humourists Bennett Arron (born 1973), comedian, writer, actor and television presenter Max Boyce (born 1945), entertainer Tommy Cooper (1922–1984), comedian and magician Lee Dainton (born 1973), Dirty Sanchez television series Ryan Davies (1937–1977), comedian and singer Rhod Gilbert (born 1968), comedian and BBC Radio Wales personality Terry Jones (1942–2020), comedian (Monty Python series), author, film director Gladys Morgan (1898–1983), comedian Tessie O'Shea (1913–1997), stand-up comedian Mathew Pritchard, Dirty Sanchez television series Griff Rhys Jones (born 1953), comic writer, actor and presenter Harry Secombe (1921–2001), comedian, actor, singer and television presenter Paul Whitehouse (born 1958), writer and actor Ronnie Williams (1939–1997), actor and comedian Inventors William Davies Evans (1790–1872) William Frost (1848–1935), amateur aviator William Robert Grove (1811–1896) John Jones (1645–1709) Adam Powell (born 1976), creator of Neopets William Henry Preece (1834–1913) Richard Roberts (1789–1864), mechanical engineer Edwin Stevens (1905–1995), designed the world's first wearable electronic hearing aid Thomas Williams of Llanidan (1737–1802) Walter Clopton Wingfield (1833–1912), inventor of