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This entry lists notable people who were born, lived or worked in Newport (Newportonians).

Arts, literature and media

Keith Baxter (actor)
Alison Bielski (poet)
Rev Augustus Buckland (writer)
James Coombes (actor)
Jack Crabtree (contemporary British artist)
Charles Danby (actor)
Josie d'Arby (actress and television presenter)
Gareth David-Lloyd (actor)
W. H. Davies (poet, tramp)
Dirty Sanchez (actors based in Newport)
Lisa Diveney (actress)
Aimee-Ffion Edwards (actress)
Adrian Finighan (newsreader reporter and journalist)
Valerie Gearon (actress)
Peter Greenaway (film director)
Harry Greene (trained as an engineering draughtsman at Newport College of Art)
Fred Hando (writer, artist and schoolteacher)
Lyn Harding (actor)
Anne Hegerty (TV celebrity, South Wales Argus journalist 1980s)
Frederick William Horner (playwright, publisher and politician)
Colin Jeavons (actor)
Charles William King (writer)
Mark Labbett (professional quizzer and TV personality; lived in Newport 2003)
David Langford (author)
Roger Lewis (academic)
Desmond Llewelyn (actor; James Bond movies)
Bernard Lloyd (actor; BBC's The Signalman)
Arthur Machen (author)
Johnny Morris (presenter, BBC's Animal Magic)
Darragh Mortell (actor)
Matt Rees (novelist)
Julian Richards (film director)
Rex Richards (actor, rugby player)
Craig Roberts (actor and director)
Nathan Rogers (writer)
Banita Sandhu (actress)
Keiron Self (actor)
Caroline Sheen (actress)
Michael Sheen (actor)
Tayce (drag artist)
Leslie Thomas (author)
Stanley L. Wood (illustrator, artist)

Music

60 Ft. Dolls (1990s rock trio)
The Darling Buds (indie band)
Desecration (death metal band)
Dub War (rock band)
Nick Evans (trombonist notable in the Canterbury scene)
Goldie Lookin Chain (satirical rap group)
Green Gartside (songwriter and musician - Scritti Politti attended Newport Art College)
Holly Holyoake (soprano)
Gerard Johnson (keyboard player with Saint Etienne)
Mai Jones (songwriter, entertainer and radio producer)
Jon Langford (musician)
Jon Lee (drummer with Feeder)
Jon Lilygreen (Eurovision 2010 contestant and singer with pop duo Lilygreen & Maguire)
Maggot (rapper with Goldie Lookin Chain)
Donna Matthews (lead guitarist with Elastica)
Grant Nicholas (lead singer with Feeder)
Jack Perrett (singer, songwriter, and musician)
Nigel Pulsford (original lead guitarist with Bush)
Skindred (reggae metal band)
Joe Strummer (guitarist with The Clash), lived in Newport for a year 1973–1974
Terris (indie band)
John Rogers Thomas (singer, pianist and composer 1829–1896)

Politics

Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
John Batchelor (also anti-slavery campaigner)
Jayne Bryant
Dame Rosemary Butler
David TC Davies
Joseph Davies
Chris Elmore
Thomas Firbank (High Sheriff of Monmouthshire and MP for Kingston upon Hull East)
Paul Flynn (former Newport West MP)
John Frost (Chartist and Mayor of Newport)
Charles Gibbs (Canadian politician)
John Griffiths
Roy Hughes, Baron Islwyn of Casnewydd
Ruth Jones
Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire
Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (Member of Parliament, landowner and philanthropist)
Giles Morgan
Octavius Morgan (MP for Monmouthshire 1841–1874)
William Morgan
William Pritchard Morgan ('The Welsh Gold King' and Liberal MP for Merthyr Tydfil 1888–1900)
Thomas Phillips (Mayor of Newport during the Chartist Uprising)
Thomas Prothero (opponent of John Frost, local politician and landowner)
John Savage (politician; Premier of Nova Scotia)
Frank Soskice, Baron Stow Hill
James Henry Thomas
Florence Tunks (suffragette)
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (diplomat and satirist)

Sport

Football

Rugby

Other sports

Johnny Basham (boxer)
Mark Bennett (snooker player)
Darren Campbell (athlete; Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter)
Dan Cherry (cricketer)
Paul Collier (snooker referee)
Matthew Compton (cricketer)
Abbas Farid (freestyle footballer)
Adam Harrison (cricketer)
Venissa Head (athlete; shot putter and discus thrower)
Robert Henderson (cricketer)
Len Hill (footballer and cricketer)
Gary Hocking (motorcycle racer)
Christian Malcolm (athlete; Olympic sprinter)
Sean McGoldrick (bantamweight boxer)
Darren Morgan (snooker player)
Jon Mould (racing cyclist)
Andrew Pagett (snooker player)
David 'Bomber' Pearce (heavyweight boxer)
Reginald Phillips (cricketer)
Ian Preece (snooker player)
Phillip Price (golfer)
Alan Rees (Grand Prix motor racing driver)
Dick Richardson (heavyweight boxer)
Tony Ridler (darts player)
Sallyanne Short (athlete)

Other notable people

Sir John Beynon, 1st Baronet (businessman and military commander)
Perce Blackborow (Antarctic explorer)
Cadoc (saint)
Lee Dainton (star of MTV's Dirty Sanchez)
Lewis Evans (mathematician)
Joseph Firbank (English railway contractor Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company)
Gwladys (queen: wife of King Gwynllyw)
Gwynllyw (saint)
Mary Jane Innes (brewery manager)
Sarah Lang (game show contestant)
Edward Lewis (minister)
Tom 'Toya' Lewis (Newport Docks disaster 2 July 1909 - received the Albert Medal)
John Wallace Linton (Royal Navy Commander and Victoria Cross recipient)
Sir Terry Matthews (entrepreneur; Wales' first billionaire)
Raymond Steed (seaman)
Matt Tebbutt (chef and TV food presenter)
Ruth van Heyningen (biochemist)
John Williams (company sergeant major, South Wales Borderers), Victoria Cross recipient; died in Newport 1953)

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