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Thomas Charles ('Charles o'r Bala'; 1755-1814) was most likely born in Longmoor in the parish of Llanfihangel Abercywyn, Carmarthenshire. He became one of Wales's greatest Methodist leaders and educationalists, taking a primary role in establishing Cymdeithas y Beiblau (The Bible Society) in order to disseminate inexpensive Bibles in the Welsh language, and also in establishing sunday schools - an aspect of religious life which became prevalent amongst the Methodists.

Leo Abse, politician, was born in 1917 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, the son of a Jewish family. He was educated at Howard Gardens High School and (after the Second World War) the London School of Economics. His younger brother is the poet and author Dannie Abse. Leo Abse left school to work as a factory worker, becoming involved in political activity, and displaying strong sympathies with the Communist Party, visiting Spain clandestinely in 1939 during the Civil War. He served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, subsequently attended the London School of Economics, and then returned to Cardiff to study law. He joined a Cardiff law firm (of which he eventually became senior partner); he served as a member of Cardiff City Council between 1953 and 1958, and fought for the Labour Party Cardiff North in the general election of 1955. He was the first solicitor to be granted audience in the High Court in 1986. He was Labour MP for Pontypool from 1958 until 1983, and for Torfaen from 1983 until his retirement in 1987. He served as chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Party, 1976-1987, and acted as leader of the Labour anti-devolution campaign in Wales in the 1979 Referendum. At Westminster, Abse proved an effective backbencher, acting as sponsor or co-sponsor for Private Member's Bills relating to divorce, homosexuality, family planning, legitimacy, widows' damages, industrial injuries, congenital disabilities and relief from forfeiture. He also initiated the first Commons debates on genetic engineering, Windscale, and in vitro pregnancies. He has written several books among them, Private Member (1973); Margaret, Daughter of Beatrice (1989); Wotan, My Enemy (1994), The Man Behind the Smile (1996) and Fellatio, Masochism, Politics and Love (2000).

Benjamin Flower (1755-1829) was a writer and printer who travelled widely in Europe and spent six months in France in 1791. He was appointed editor of the influential provincial newspaper The Cambridge Intelligencer, which had liberal views. In 1799, he was summoned before the House of Lords for libelling Bishop Watson of Llandaff, whose political conduct he had censured. He was imprisoned in Newgate. He married Eliza Gould (d.1810) in 1800, and they had two daughters, Eliza (1803-1846) and Sarah (1805-1848). Later, he became a printer in Harlow.

Richard Bennett (1860-1937), Methodist historian, antiquary and copyist, was born at Hendre Cwm Pennant, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, a farmer's son who received only a basic education. He manifested an early interest in local history, copying out parish registers and researching their information. Later, he would contribute historical articles to periodicals. From 1905 Bennett regularly visited Trefeca College to read and research manuscripts and it was he who copied out the Trefeca letters for publication in the supplements of the C. M. Historical Journal. Bennett also published several of his own works relating to the history of Calvinistic Methodism in Montgomeryshire.