Famous People with Name Rhys

Rhys W. Duch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rhys W. Duch: is a lacrosse player for the Washington Stealth of the National Lacrosse League. During high school, he played for three years at Baggataway Club in Victoria, B.C. He was a two-time Provincial and overall MVP selection, and an eight-time Provincial All-St

Rhys Hill            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rhys Hill: is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 2000s. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he finished ninth in the K-4 1000 m event.

Gruff Rhys            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Gruff Rhys: is a Welsh musician, performing solo and with several bands, including the Super Furry Animals who obtained mainstream success in the 1990s. He also most recently formed the electro-pop outfit Neon Neon with DJ Boom Bip. Their album Stainless Style was no

Jean Rhys            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Jean Rhys: was a mid 20th-century novelist from Dominica. Educated from the age of 16 in Great Britain, she is best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a "prequel" to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. In 1924 Rhys' work was introduced to the English writer Ford Madox Ford. They met in Paris, and Rhys thereafter wrote short stories under his patronage. Ford praised her "singular instinct for form" and recognised that her outsider status gave her a unique viewpoint. "Coming from the West Indies, he declared, ‘with a terrifying insight and … passion for stating the case of the underdog, she has let her pen loose on the Left Banks of the Old World'." At that time her husband was in jail for eight months for what Rhys described as currency irregularities. Rhys moved in with Ford and his longtime partner, Stella Bowen. An affair with Ford quickly ensued. In the 1940s, Rhys all but disappeared from public view, eventually being traced to Landboat Bungalows, Cheriton Fitzpaine, in Devon. After her absence from writing and the public eye, in 1966 she published Wide Sargasso Sea, which won the prestigious WH Smith Literary Award in 1967. In it, Rhys returned again to the theme of dominance and dependence, through the relationship between a self-assured European man and a powerless woman. Diana Athill of André Deutsch's publishing house was responsible for choosing to publish Wide Sargasso Sea, and she helped revive widespread interest in Rhys' work.

John Rhys-Davies            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

John Rhys-Davies: is an English-born Welsh actor and voice artist. He is perhaps best known for his portrayals as the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which he also voiced the Ent Treebeard

Rhys Rhys-Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Rhys Rhys-Williams: was a British Liberal Party politician from Wales.