Dafydd

Dafydd is a Welsh masculine given name, related to David, and more rarely a surname. People so named include:

Medieval era

 * Ordered chronologically


 * Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd (c. 1145 – 1203), Prince of Gwynedd
 * Dafydd ap Gruffydd (1238–1283), Prince of Wales
 * Dafydd Goch, said to be the illegitimate son of Dafydd ap Gruffydd
 * Dafydd ap Gwilym (c. 1315/1320–c. 1350/1370), Welsh poet
 * Dafydd ap Llywelyn (1215–1246), Prince of Gwynedd and first Prince of Wales
 * Dafydd ap Dafydd ap Llywelyn (born between 1240 and 1246-?), illegitimate son of Dafydd ap Llywelyn
 * Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd, Welsh poet
 * Dafydd Benfras, Welsh court poet
 * Dafydd Ddu o Hiraddug (died 1371), Welsh poet, grammarian and cleric
 * Dafydd Gam (1380–1415), Welsh soldier and nobleman who died at the Battle of Agincourt
 * Dafydd ab Ieuan or David Holbache (died 1422/3), Welsh politician
 * Dafydd Gorlech (c. 1410), Welsh poet
 * Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (Dafydd Llwyd o Fathafarn), Welsh poet
 * Dafydd Nanmor, Welsh poet
 * Dafydd ab Edmwnd, Welsh poet

Modern era

 * Dafydd Trystan Davies (born 1974), Welsh academic and politician
 * Dafydd Elis-Thomas (born 1946), Welsh politician
 * Dafydd Hewitt (born 1985), Welsh retired rugby union player
 * Dafydd Howells (born 1995), Wales rugby union player
 * Dafydd ab Hugh (born 1960), American science fiction author born David Friedman
 * Dafydd Ieuan (born 1969), Welsh musician and producer
 * Dafydd Ifans (born 1949), Welsh novelist and translator
 * Dafydd James (born 1975), Wales retired rugby union player
 * David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) (1751–1827), Welsh poet
 * Dafydd Iwan (born 1943), Welsh folk singer and politician
 * Dafydd Jones (disambiguation)
 * David Edward Lewis (1866–1941), Welsh businessman and philanthropist
 * Dafydd Llywelyn (1939–2013), Welsh composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
 * Dafydd Elystan Morgan, Baron Elystan-Morgan (1932–2021), Welsh politician
 * Dafydd Rogers (born 1969), West End and Broadway theatre producer
 * Dafydd Rowlands (1931–2001), Welsh Congregational minister, lecturer, writer and poet
 * Dafydd Stephens (1942–2012), Welsh audiological physician and professor
 * Dafydd Wigley (born 1943), Welsh politician
 * Dafydd Williams (born 1954), Canadian physician and retired astronaut

Surname

 * Catrin Dafydd, Welsh writer, winner of the Crown at the 2018 National Eisteddfod
 * Einir Dafydd, Welsh singer who won the third series of the television talent show Wawffactor and the 2007 Cân i Gymru competition
 * Fflur Dafydd (born 1978), Welsh novelist, singer-songwriter and musician
 * Guto Dafydd (born c. 1990), Welsh writer
 * Myrddin ap Dafydd (born 1956), Welsh editor and prifardd (Chief Bard)