Asian Welsh people

Asian Welsh people are people who live in Wales with Asian heritage, Welsh people of Asian heritage or people with mixed Asian and Welsh heritage. As with other parts of the United Kingdom, "Asian" typically refers to people of South Asian origin, in the census category this means those of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi heritage. There are also options for people of Chinese or other Asian ancestry - in which other South Asian backgrounds like Sri Lankan are included, as well as other Asian backgrounds, like Filipino, for example.

Demography
In 2016, the Welsh Assembly of the time (now Welsh Parliament/Senedd Cymru) was criticised for not having a "Welsh Asian" tick box for polling purposes on an equalities form issued in Wales, by the Welsh Assembly.

The second largest "high-level" ethnicity category in Wales in 2021 was “Asian, Asian Welsh or Asian British”. 89,000 people identified as this category, which is 2.9% of the Welsh population. This compares to 2.3% in 2011.

Acting and film

 * Banita Sandhu
 * Danielle Bux
 * Jessica Sula
 * Sally El Hosaini

Art

 * Alia Syed

Authors

 * Shereen El Feki

Business

 * Shelim Hussain
 * Albert Gubay

Medical

 * David Nott

Politics

 * Natasha Asghar
 * Mohammad Asghar
 * Neil McEvoy

Singing

 * Andy Scott-Lee
 * Lisa Scott-Lee

Sport

 * Neil Taylor (footballer)
 * Prem Sisodiya
 * Kishan Hirani
 * Anoma Sooriyaarachchi
 * Kieffer Moore
 * Kaid Mohamed
 * Barry Jones (boxer)
 * Mika Chunuonsee
 * Tom Ramasut
 * Clive Rees
 * Tal Dunne

Television and radio

 * Jason Mohammad
 * Marc Edwards (TV presenter)

Other

 * Abbas Farid
 * Sabrina Cohen-Hatton
 * Shash Appan

In popular culture
The Indian Doctor, is a BBC comedy drama set in a 1960s Welsh mining village of Trefelin which shows the impact that a Delhi graduate has on the village.