Edinburgh has also become associated with the crime novels of Ian Rankin, and the work of Irvine Welsh, whose novels are mostly set in the city and are often written in colloquial Scots.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

* 1977 – Ian Watkins, Welsh singer-songwriter ( Lostprophets and Public Disturbance )

* 1976 – Ian " H " Watkins, Welsh singer and actor ( Steps and H & Claire )

* 1958 – Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer

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

* Ian Rush ( born 1961 ), Welsh former footballer

With regard to the current situation of Welsh poetry in English, Ian Gregson suggests that " much of the most exciting poetry in Britain is being written in Wales ".

dpkg was originally created by Matt Welsh, Carl Streeter and Ian Murdock, first as a Perl program, and then later the main part was rewritten in C by Ian Jackson in 1993.

* Graeme Chesters, & Ian Welsh.

Ian " H " Watkins ( born 8 May 1976 ) is a Welsh singer and actor.

More recently it housed, in 1966, Moors murderess Myra Hindley ; in 1967, beautiful Welsh temptress Kim Newell who was involved in the Red Mini Murder and Nazi synagogue arsonist Françoise Dior, in 1993, Sheila Bowler, the music teacher wrongly imprisoned for the murder of her elderly aunt, was detained there before being transferred to Bullwood Hall and in 2002, Maxine Carr who gave a false alibi for Soham murderer Ian Huntley.

When Platini retired in 1987, Laudrup was expected to lead the team in his place, playing alongside newly bought Welsh forward Ian Rush.

Ian James Rush, MBE, ( born 20 October 1961 in St Asaph, Wales ) is a Welsh former footballer.

A number of others also resigned, including his fellow Welsh MPs Ian Lucas and Mark Tami.

Davis than missed the World Open, as he lost his first qualifying match 1 – 5 against Ian McCulloch, but reached the last 16 of the Welsh Open with three 4 – 3 victories, defeating Lucky Vatnani, Ricky Walden and Allister Carter, before losing 0 – 4 against Shaun Murphy.

* Ian Lucas MP Welsh Labour Party profile

* Ian Woosnam, a Welsh professional golfer born in 1958.

These include actor Richard Ian Cox, William Morgan who translated the Bible into Welsh in 1588, the first archbishop of Wales Alfred George Edwards, comedian Greg Davies, singer Lisa Scott-Lee, composer William Mathias, former Wales football captain Ian Rush, the explorer and journalist Henry Morton Stanley, Dic Aberdaron, who taught himself Latin at the age of 11, Felicia Hemans ( 1793 – 1835 ), poet (" The boy stood on the burning deck "), and LET golfer Becky Brewerton.

Four years later, Shevchenko was on the Dynamo Kyiv under-14 team for the Ian Rush Cup ( now the Welsh Super Cup ); he finished as the tournament's top scorer and was awarded a pair of Rush's boots as a prize by the then-Liverpool player.

His 59 appearances for England while at Liverpool made him the club's most capped player until Welsh striker Ian Rush broke the record more than ten years later.

Ian Harold Woosnam OBE ( born 2 March 1958 ) is a Welsh professional golfer.

Academic Alexander Welsh notes that Great Expectations is an " autobiographical novel " and " anticipates psychoanalytic readings of Hamlet itself ".

* Welsh, Alexander.

Knox's three daughters also married: Martha to Alexander Fairlie ; Margaret to Zachary Pont, son of Robert Pont and brother of Timothy Pont ; and Elizabeth to John Welsh, a minister of the Kirk.

Notable traders, agents, and refugee Tories among the Cherokee included John Stuart, Henry Stuart, Alexander Cameron, John McDonald, John Joseph Vann ( father of James Vann ), Daniel Ross ( father of John Ross ), John Walker Sr., John McLemore ( father of Bob ), William Buchanan, John Watts ( father of John Watts Jr .), John D. Chisholm, John Benge ( father of Bob Benge ), Thomas Brown, John Rogers ( Welsh ), John Gunter ( German, founder of Gunter's Landing ), James Adair ( Irish ), William Thorpe ( English ), and Peter Hildebrand ( German ), among many others, several attaining the status of minor chiefs and / or members of significant delegations.

The highest-placed Scottish entry was Alexander Fleming in 20th place, with the highest Welsh entry, Owain Glyndŵr, at number 23.

* Sasha ( DJ ) ( Alexander Paul Coe, born 1969 ), Welsh DJ and record producer

John Witherspoon was born at Gifford, a parish of Yester, at East Lothian, Scotland, as the eldest child of the Reverend James Alexander Witherspoon and Anne Walker, a descendant of John Welsh of Ayr and John Knox.

Sasha ( born Alexander Paul Coe on 4 September 1969 in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales ) is a Welsh DJ and record producer.

Son: Edward Alexander Welsh md Sarah Gaines: Grandson: Robert Alexander Welsh md Judith Barr: Great Gradnson: John Robert Welsh md Anne Elizabeth Heggerty: 2nd Great Grandson: William Patrick Welsh md Johanna Cloughlan: 3rd Great Grandson Michael Patrick Welsh md Mary Ann Dunn.

* Sasha ( DJ ), Welsh DJ ( real name Alexander Coe )

Contributors included Murray Rothbard, Noam Chomsky, Cesar Chavez, Seymour Hersh, Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, Jonathan Kozol, Todd Gitlin, Sol Stern, Tariq Ali, Alexander Cockburn, Christopher Hitchens, Saul Landau, David Welsh, and John Beecher.

A notable amount of fiction has been written in the Welsh area of Celtic fantasy ; other notable authors of Welsh Celtic fantasy include Kenneth Morris, John Cowper Powys, Vaughan Wilkins, Lloyd Alexander, Alan Garner, and Jenny Nimmo.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, the Welsh town of Porthmadog ( meaning " Madoc's Port " in English ) and the village of Tremadog (" Madoc's Town ") in the county of Gwynedd are actually named after the industrialist and Member of Parliament William Alexander Madocks, their principal developer, rather than the legendary son of Owain Gwynedd.

Lloyd Alexander invented it himself, based on elements borrowed from actual Welsh names.

* 1985 – Tom Smith, Welsh rugby union footballer

His father was Edwin William John, a Welsh solicitor ; his mother, Augusta Smith from a long line of Sussex plumbers, died young when he was six, but not before inculcating a love of drawing in both Augustus and his older sister Gwen.

In Celtic mythology, the role of Smith is held by eponymous ( their names do mean ' smith ') characters: Goibhniu ( Irish myths of the Tuatha Dé Danann cycle ) or Gofannon ( Welsh myths / the Mabinogion )

* Pat Van Den Hauwe, Welsh international soccer player, former husband of Mandy Smith ( b. 1960 )

Creators of artistamps include Donald Evans, Ginny Lloyd ( Gina Lotta ), Crackerjack Kid ( Chuck Welsh ), Reed Altemus, Darlene Altschul ( DKA POST ), Katerina Nikoltsou, Eleanor Kent, Beverly Dittberner, Jim Czyl, Boog, Keith Buchholz, Otto Sherman, Marilyn Rosenberg, Petra Weimer, Peter Netmail, Buster Cleveland, William Rowe, Miguel Jimenez, Dame Mailarta, György Galántai, Carl Chew, Anna Banana, Patricia Tavenner, Jas W Felter, Michael Bidner, Michael Thompson, Michael Hernandez de Luna, Ed Paschke, Clifford Harper, Al Brandtner, Steve Smith, Russell Butler ( buZ blurr ), Alan Brignull, Dennis Jordan, Rachel Scott, Guy Bleus, Arturo G. Fallico, Harley, Hamlet Mateo, Michael Angelo H. Mayo Post 1211, Marlon Vito Picasso ( Rocola ), Kursade Karatas, Bruce Grenville, Natalie Lamanova, Robert Rudine, H. R.

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of lawyer Robert N. Smith, and of Welsh descent.

* Chris Smith ( rugby league ) ( born 1975 ), Welsh rugby league footballer

By 1944 not all of Time and Lifes forty war correspondents were men ; six were newswomen: Mary Welsh Hemingway, Margaret Bourke-White, Lael Tucker, Peggy Durdin, Shelley Smith Mydans, Annalee Jacoby, and Jacqueline Saix, an Englishwoman whose name is usually omitted ( she and Welsh are the only women listed in Time's publisher's letter, May 8, 1944, as being part of the magazine's team ) reported on the war for the company.

Peter Hain ( the future Northern Ireland Secretary and Welsh Secretary in the British Government ) was active, as a leading Young Liberal, in organising demonstrations and campaigns against Smith.

Steve ‘ Psycho ’ Smith was appointed manager in November 2010 with the task of keeping the Club in the Welsh Alliance Division 1 and developing a squad that could challenge for honours the following season.

* Sam Smith ( ice hockey ) ( born 1991 ), Welsh ice hockey player

Smith served as a soldier in the Welsh Guards during the 1980s, when he saw active service in the Falklands War and in Northern Ireland.

Llewellyn Thomas Smith ( born 16 April 1944 ) is a former Welsh Labour Party politician.

She was a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee from 1997 to 2001, and a member of the DTI Department of Trade and Industry Select Committee from 2001 until becoming a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the DTI to Jacqui Smith who was then Minister of State at the DTI.

His father belonged to an old Welsh family, but settled in England as an officer of excise and married the sister of William Smith, known as the " Father of English Geology.

# redirect John Smith ( Welsh politician )

Smith was also a vociferous opponent of the Disestablishment of the Welsh portions of the Church of England, calling the Welsh Disestablishment Bill introduced into parliament in 1913 “ a bill which has shocked the conscience of every Christian community in Europe ”.

* Tom Smith ( rugby union player born 1985 ), Welsh rugby union player

* Represented on Cardiff Council since 2004 by Jonathan Burns, Craig Piper, Richard Foley and Robert Smith ; all elected as members of the Welsh Conservative Party.

The surprising choice of the clearly Irish surname ( as Irish as Jones is Welsh or Smith is English ) should not be seen as anti-Irish.