Famous People with Name Llewelyn

Llewelyn Kenrick            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Llewelyn Kenrick: was a solicitor and international footballer.He was born into the land-owning, industrialist Kenrick dynasty of Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales. After attending Ruabon Grammar School he trained as a solicitor and practiced at Ruabon but always remained a keen football player, playing for Ruabon Druids and Shropshire Wanderers. Kenrick was instrumental in forming the Football Association of Wales in 1876 and helped draw up its constitution at a meeting in the Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Ruabon.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn            Origin/Culture/Country: Welsh

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn: was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films.Starting with the second film in the James Bond series, From Russia with Love (1963), Llewelyn appeared as Q (the quartermaster of the MI6 gadget lab known as Q-branch) in every Bond film, except Live and Let Die (1973), until The World Is Not Enough (1999). He had originally been chosen for the role as he had previously worked with the director Terence Young on the 1950 war film They Were Not Divided. In the 2002 film Die Another Day, John Cleese, who played the character R, the assistant to Q in The World Is Not Enough, was promoted to the head of Q-branch, thus taking on the title of Q. In all, Llewelyn appeared in 17 Bond films, more than any other actor, and worked with the first five James Bond actors. He also portrayed Q in a 1967 made-for-television special (produced by EON Productions) entitled, Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond which was included in the 2006 special edition DVD release of You Only Live Twice.