** Matthew the Evangelist ( Eastern Christianity )

** Matthew the Evangelist ( Western Church )

** Matthew Bomer, American film, stage, and television actor

** Matthew Perry, Canadian actor

** Matthew McConaughey, American actor

** Matthew Waterhouse, British actor

** Takashi Fujii ( Matthew Minami ), Japanese television performer

** Matthew Rush, American gay pornographic actor

** Matthew Ridgway, Commander of NATO, United States Army Chief of Staff ( d. 1993 )

** Matthew Broderick, American actor

** Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor

** Matthew Goode, English actor

** Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer

** Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, English eccentric nobleman ( b. 1712 )

** Tobias Matthew, archbishop of York ( d. 1628 )

** St. Matthew, Figure of early Christianity, specifically an Apostle

** Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician born in Rothesay ( d. 1785 )

** Coptic Pope Matthew I of Alexandria

** Matthew Kantakouzenos, Emperor of Byzantium

** On the other hand, in the Crusade episode Visitors From Down the Street, Captain Matthew Gideon would launch a full spread of modified probes ( uploaded with considerable information about Earth and other Interstellar Alliance worlds, and about certain recent events which had transpired aboard the EAS Excalibur ) at a pre-hyperspace planet where Humans had been cast ( by the local government ) in a role reminiscent of the Grey Aliens in our culture, in order to expose the locals to the truth.

** Bronx Cheers -- Raymond De Felitta, Matthew Gross

** Propositions, by Matthew McGrath

** St Matthew, Brixton ( now also home to Mass nightclub )

** Matthew Clarke

** Grace Rhys, Irish novelist & poet ( born 1865 )

** Rhys Prichard, Welsh-language poet ( died 1644 )

** also including Jonathan Kane, Arnold Dreyblatt, Zeena Parkins, Tony Conrad, Tony Conrad with Faust, Rhys Chatham, Leif Inge

** Matthew Rhys as Edward Malone

** Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors as King Henry VIII

** Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors as King Henry VIII

** Griff Rhys Jones-Dr Quimper

** Monmouthshire ( historic ), former Welsh county

** Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor ( b. 1914 )

** Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician ( b. 1921 )

** Hedd Wyn, Welsh poet ( killed in action ) ( b. 1887 )

** JPR Williams, Welsh rugby player

** Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh rock drummer ( Super Furry Animals )

** Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer

** Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress

** Shakin ' Stevens, Welsh singer

** Robert Tear, Welsh tenor

** Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer ( b. 1876 )

** Max Boyce, Welsh comedian and singer

** John Cale, Welsh composer and musician ( Velvet Underground )

** Peter Greenaway, Welsh filmmaker

** Timothy Dalton, Welsh actor

** Russell T Davies, Welsh television producer and writer

** Mark Hughes, Welsh football player & manager

** Alec Templeton, Welsh composer, pianist and satirist ( b. 1909 ) or b. 1910 )

** Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer

** Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist and presenter

** Ian Watkins, Welsh singer ( Steps ) and actor

** Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio producer and presenter

** Wynne Evans, Welsh operatic tenor

** Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer