Sir Terence Hedley Matthews
Sir Terence Hedley Matthews OBE, FIEE, FREng (born 1943) is a Welsh-born Canadian serial high tech entrepreneur, and Wales' first billionaire.
Matthews has founded over 80 companies in the United Kingdom and Canada in the high tech communications field. His most notable successes so far have been with Mitel (which he sold to British Telecom), and Newbridge Networks which was acquired for seven billion dollars by Alcatel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Matthews
John Winterson Richards
Born in St David’s Hospital, Cardiff, he is the son of the late Alun Thomas Richards, a solicitor, and the late Patricia Winterson Richards, an antiques dealer. He was awarded a Bachelor of Laws (Ll.B) degree by the University of Bristol, where he was resident at Wills Hall, and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST).[1] He also attended courses at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
He held his first company directorship at 19, and at 22 founded a consultancy specialising in small business.
He is the author of the Bluffer’s Guide to Small Business[2] and the Xenophobe’s Guide to the Welsh,[3] published by Oval Books. These two books have between them been reprinted twenty times in English and have been translated into eight other languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winterson_Richards
Pryce Pryce-Jones
Pryce-Jones was born in Llanllwchaiarn, just outside Newtown, Montgomeryshire in Wales. He was apprenticed to a local draper, John Davies, and took over Davies's business in 1856. In the same year he married Eleanor Rowley Morris of Newtown. Pryce-Jones started with his own little shop selling drapery just off Broad Street. Renamed the Royal Welsh Warehouse, the business flourished. Newtown had always had a woollen industry and it was the local Welsh flannel which formed the mainstay of Pryce-Jones' business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pryce_Pryce-Jones
Griffith Jenkins Griffith
Griffith Jenkins Griffith (January 4, 1850 – July 6, 1919) was a Welsh-American industrialist and philanthropist. After amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, Griffith donated 3,015 acres (12.20 km2) to the City of Los Angeles which became Griffith Park, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory. Griffith's legacy was marred by his notorious shooting of his wife in 1903, a crime for which he served two years in prison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffith_J._Griffith
Albert Gubay
Albert Gubay, KC*SG (born 9 April 1928) is a Welsh businessman, who made his fortune in retailing with Kwik Save, building it further on investments, mainly in property development. According to Forbes, in 2006 Gubay had an estimated fortune of approximately GBP500 million (USD1.1 billion), making him the 698th richest person in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gubay
Sir John Josiah Guest
Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, (2 February 1785 – 26 November 1852) was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.
Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company. Guest was educated at Bridgnorth Grammar School and Monmouth School before learning the trade of ironmaking in his father's foundry at the hands of works manager John Evans. He was renowned for his ability to roll a bar of steel or cut a tram of coal as well as any of his father's workmen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Josiah_Guest
Richard Amerike
Richard ap Meryk, Anglicised to Richard Amerike (or Ameryk) (c. 1445–1503) was a wealthy English born merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff of Welsh descent. He was the principal owner of John Cabot's ship Matthew during his voyage of exploration to North America in 1497. It has been speculated that "America" is derived from his name, owing to his sponsorship of the voyages to Newfoundland, rather than from Amerigo Vespucci, the explorer and map-maker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Amerike
* All of these people were sourced from Wikipedia
