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Rees (ˈriːs) is a Welsh
name that traces back to the ancient Celts known as the Britons. The surname was first recorded in Carmarthenshire
, and is derived from the personal name Rhys
.
It may refer to one of these people:
Rees might also mean:
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
name that traces back to the ancient Celts known as the Britons. The surname was first recorded in Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire is a unitary authority in the south west of Wales and one of thirteen historic counties. It is the 3rd largest in Wales. Its three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford...
, and is derived from the personal name Rhys
Rhys
Rhys is* a Welsh given name , famous in Welsh history* a surname of Welsh origin that means "Dragon", "fervor", "passion", "ultimate strength", "king" or "zeal"The name is also anglicised as Rice, Rees, Reese and Reece-Welsh history :...
.
It may refer to one of these people:
- Abraham ReesAbraham ReesAbraham Rees was a Welsh nonconformist minister, and compiler of Rees's Cyclopaedia .- Life :He was the second son of Lewis Rees, by his wife Esther, daughter of Abraham Penry, and was born at born in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire. Lewis Rees Abraham Rees (1743 – 9 June 1825) was a Welsh...
(1743–1825), compiler of Rees's Cyclopaedia - Alan ReesAlan ReesAlan Rees is a British former racing driver from Wales. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix in the 1960s, although two of those appearances were driving Formula 2 cars...
, British Formula One driver - Aneurin Rees (1858–1932), Wales rugby union international
- Angharad ReesAngharad ReesAngharad Mary Rees is a Welsh actress, best-known for her British television roles during the 1970s, garnering notice for her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC drama series Poldark.-Career:...
(born 1949), British actress - Billy ReesBilly ReesWilliam "Billy" Rees was a Welsh former professional footballer and Wales international.-Career:Rees was born in Pwllcarn Terrace, Blaengarw. He had been working as a coal miner while playing amateur football for Caernarvon Rovers when he was spotted by Cardiff City manager Cyril Spiers...
(1924–1996), Welsh international footballer - Brinley ReesBrinley ReesProfessor Brinley Roderick Rees was a Welsh academic. He wrote extensively on Classics, particularly the study of the Greek language. Early work was devoted to Greek papyri; a later publication was devoted to the Life and Letters of Pelagius...
(1919–2004), British classicist - Celia ReesCelia ReesCelia Rees is an English author of children's literature, including some horror and fantasy books.She was born in 1949in Solihull, West Midlands but now lives in Leamington Spa with her husband and teenage daughter. Rees attended University of Warwick and earned a degree in History of Politics...
, British author - Clive ReesClive ReesClive Frederick William Rees is a former Welsh rugby union player. He won thirteen caps as left wing for Wales between 1973 and 1983....
, Wales and British Lions rugby union international - Dai ReesDai ReesDavid James Rees, CBE was one of the Britain's leading golfers either side of World War II.The winner of many prestigious tournaments in Britain, Europe and farther afield, Rees is best remembered as the captain of the Great Britain Ryder Cup team which defeated the United States at Lindrick Golf...
(born 1913), Welsh golfer - Damian Rees (born 1978), Welsh composer
- Dan ReesDan ReesDaniel "Dan" Rees was a Welsh international rugby union centre who played club rugby for Swansea. Thomas was a twice Triple Crown winner, after representing Wales during the 1900 and 1905 Home Nations Championships. Later in his career he switched to professional rugby league, joining Hull...
, Welsh international rugby player - David Benjamin ReesDavid Benjamin ReesThe Reverend Professor David Benjamin Rees , widely known as D. Ben Rees, is a Welsh-language publisher and leader of the Welsh community in Liverpool. He leads one of Liverpool's five remaining Welsh chapels...
, Welsh publisher, author and preacher - David Rees (cartoonist)David Rees (cartoonist)David Thomas Rees is a left-wing cartoonist and humorist whose best-known work combines bland clip art with outrageous "trash talk" to incongruous effect...
(born 1972), U.S. cartoonist - Don ReesDon ReesDr. Donald "Don" Rees was warden of Hugh Stewart Hall in the University of Nottingham for 29 years . Dr. Rees was a highly respected academic, being a professor of mathematics, and a leading member of the University community. He was the last warden to inhabit the Warden's House at Hugh Stewart in...
, warden of Hugh Stewart Hall in the University of Nottingham for 29 years - Elgan ReesElgan ReesHarold Elgan Rees is a former Welsh international rugby union player. He toured with the British Lions to New Zealand in 1977, when he had yet to be capped by Wales, and South Africa in 1980 and at the time played club rugby for Neath...
, Wales and British Lions rugby union international - Elmer ReesElmer ReesElmer Gethin Rees, CBE, FRSE is a mathematician with publications in area ranging from topology, differential geometry, algebraic geometry, linear algebra and Morse theory to robotics...
, British geometer - Fernando ReesFernando ReesFernando Rees is a Brazilian racecar driver. He started his career in motor racing back in 1993 at age 8, and has recently competed in the most celebrated international championships...
(born 1985), Brazilian autoracing driver - Gareth Rees (motorsport commentator)Gareth Rees (motorsport commentator)Gareth Rees is a Welsh motorsport commentator. He has commentated on a wide variety of series, including Champ Car, IndyCar, the World Series, Formula 3000, Euro 3000, DTM and GP2...
, (born 1969) Welsh motorsport commentator - Gareth Rees (rugby player) (born 1967), Canadian rugby union player
- Geraint ReesGeraint ReesGeraint Rees FMedSci is Director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and a Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at University College London.-Biography:...
, British neurologist and neuroscientist - Goronwy ReesGoronwy ReesGoronwy Rees was a Welsh journalist, academic and writer. He was educated at the University of Oxford.He was during the 1930s a Marxist intellectual, and in contact with the Cambridge Five spy ring through Guy Burgess. Right at the end of his life he admitted spying for the USSR for a short time,...
(1909-1979), Welsh journalist, academician, memoirist, and Soviet spy - Grover Rees, IIIGrover Rees, IIIGrover Joseph Rees, III , a Louisiana lawyer, is the former United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of East Timor. He presented his credentials to East Timorese President Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão in December 2002, following his nomination by then U.S. President George W. Bush and...
(born 1951), U.S. judge and diplomat - Jason Rees (disambiguation)
- Jean ReesJean ReesJean Rees was a British artist.She dedicated the later part of her life to promoting the visual arts in the West of England. A highly accomplished landscape artist in her own right, exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy , the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Institute of Painters in Water...
(1914–2004), British artist - Jeremy ReesJeremy ReesJeremy Rees was a British arts administrator. He was the founder of the Arnolfini Centre for the Contemporary Arts in Bristol and its director from its opening in 1961 until 1986....
(1937–2003), British arts administrator - Jeremy Rees (Radio Presenter)Jeremy Rees (radio presenter)Jeremy Rees is a Welsh radio presenter and voice-over artist. He currently heard on Radio Cardiff in South Wales.-Biography :Rees was born in Morriston, Swansea and grew up in the Lliw Valley. He left Wales in 1983 to become a community worker in Bradford, West Yorkshire before moving to London...
, Welsh broadcaster - Jerry ReesJerry ReesJerry W. Rees is an animator and director best known for the 1987 Emmy-nominated animated film The Brave Little Toaster. He supervised and helped create many of the visual effects for the cult classic Tron, and is also a sculptor and fine artist....
, U.S. animator and film director - John Rees (journalist)John Rees (journalist)John Rees is a British right wing journalist resident in the United States of America. Based out of Baltimore, Maryland, he was active during the 1970s and 1980s. He ran a network of private informants on college campuses in the United States, that Political Research Associates referred to as often...
, U.S. journalist - John Rees (UK politician)John Rees (UK politician)John Rees is a British political activist, broadcaster and writer who is a national officer of the Stop the War Coalition and founding member of Counterfire who was formerly associated with the Socialist Workers Party...
, British Trotskyist politician - John Rawlings ReesJohn Rawlings ReesJohn Rawlings Rees OBE MD RAMC was a wartime and civilian psychiatrist and became a brigadier in the British Army. He was a member of the group of key figures at the original Tavistock Clinic and became its medical director from 1934...
(1890–1969), British psychiatrist - Idwal ReesIdwal ReesIdwal Rees was a Welsh international rugby union centre who played club rugby for Swansea and Cambridge University.-Rugby career:Rees first played rugby for Swansea Grammar School, but when he graduated to Swansea University at the age of 17, he gave up rugby as he believed he was too light to play...
(1910–1991), Wales rugby union captain - Ivor ReesIvor ReesIvor Rees VC was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to members of the British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
(1893–1967), Welsh soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross - Katie ReesKatie ReesKatie Rees is a former beauty queen from the United States who was crowned Miss Nevada USA 2007...
, a former American beauty queen - Leighton ReesLeighton ReesLeighton Thomas Rees was the first ever World Professional Darts Champion.-Early life:Rees was born in the village of Ynysybwl, where he was to spend most of his life...
(born 1940), Welsh darts player - Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees (1884–1955), Welsh World War I flying ace
- Lloyd ReesLloyd ReesLloyd Frederic Rees AC CMG was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings....
(1895–1988), Australian landscape painter - Martin Rees, Baron Rees of LudlowMartin Rees, Baron Rees of LudlowMartin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004...
(born 1942), British Astronomer Royal - Matt Rees, (born 1967) Welsh novelist
- Matthew ReesMatthew ReesMatthew Rees is a Wales and British Lions international rugby union footballer who currently plays for the Scarlets in the Celtic League. His usual position is at hooker...
, Wales and British Lions rugby union international - Merlyn Rees (born 1920), British Labour party politician and minister
- Morgan Rees, (born 1988) English economist and solcialist campaigner.
- Nathan ReesNathan ReesNathan Rees MP, , an Australian politician, was the 41st Premier of New South Wales and parliamentary leader of the New South Wales division of the Australian Labor Party from September 2008 to December 2009...
, (born 1968) Australian politician with the Labor Party, and Premier of New South Wales. - Nigel Rees (footballer)Nigel Rees (footballer)Nigel Richard Rees is a Welsh former professional footballer.-Career:A Welsh youth international, Rees began his career as a youth player at Cardiff City, where he was part of the team that reached the 1971 FA Youth Cup final before losing to Arsenal...
(born 1953), Welsh footballer - Peter ReesPeter ReesPeter Wynford Innes Rees, Baron Rees PC, QC was a British politician. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Dover and Deal from 1974 to 1983 and MP for Dover from 1970 to 1974 and 1983 to 1987...
(born 1926), British Conservative party politician - Ronnie ReesRonnie ReesRonnie Rees is a former Welsh international footballer. He played predominantly as a winger and was able to play down either flank....
, Welsh international footballer - Roger ReesRoger ReesRoger Rees is a Welsh actor. He is best known to American audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord on the American television sitcom show Cheers and Lord John Marbury on the American television drama The West Wing...
(born 1944), British-American actor - Ronnie ReesRonnie ReesRonnie Rees is a former Welsh international footballer. He played predominantly as a winger and was able to play down either flank....
(born 1944), Welsh footballer - Stuart ReesStuart ReesEmeritus Professor Stuart Rees AM is an Australian academic and author who is the Director of the Sydney Peace Foundation and Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia.-Education:...
, director of the Sydney Peace Foundation - Thomas Rees (Unitarian minister)Thomas Rees (Unitarian minister)Thomas Rees , Welsh Nonconformist divine, was a Unitarian minister and scholar.Rees was educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and entered the Unitarian ministry in 1807 at the Newington Green Unitarian Church, London. He went to Southwark in 1813, earned the degree of LL.D...
(1777–1864), Welsh Unitarian minister and scholar - Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth)Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth)Thomas Rees , generally known as Twm Carnabwth, was a leader of the first "Rebecca Riots" in 1839.Nobody knows who called the meeting in the barn of Glynsaithmaen farm in the Preseli hills, and nobody knows who attended...
(c. 1806–1876; also known as Twm Carnabwth), Welsh leader of the Rebecca Riots - Thomas Rees (Congregational minister)Thomas Rees (Congregational minister)Thomas Rees was a native of Pci Pontbren, Carmarthenshire who held pastorates at Aberdare , Llanelli , Cendl , Mon. and Swansea and became chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, but died just before his term of office was to begin. He published the History of Protestant...
(1815–1885), Welsh Congregationalist minister - Thomas Ifor ReesThomas Ifor ReesThomas Ifor Rees was a Welsh diplomat, author and translator, born at 'Bronceiro' near the hamlet of Rhydypennau in Ceredigion in Wales.Rees served as British Ambassador to Bolivia up to his retirement in 1949....
(1890–1977), Welsh diplomat and translator - Tom Rees (rugby union) (born 1984), English rugby union player
- Tommy ReesTommy ReesThomas 'Tommy' Edgar Rees was a Welsh international rugby fullback who played rugby union at club level for London Welsh...
(1904–1968), Welsh dual-code rugby player - Trevor Rees-JonesTrevor Rees-JonesTrevor Rees-Jones is the former bodyguard of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed. He was badly injured in the car accident that killed Diana, Dodi, and their driver Henri Paul. Because he suffered a head injury in the crash, Rees-Jones does not recall particulars of the accident...
, billionaire, president and CEO of Chief Oil & Gas - Trevor Rees-Jones (born 1968), British bodyguard and sole survivor of the car crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales
- Thomas Wynford ReesThomas Wynford ReesThomas Wynford Rees CB, CIE, DSO & Bar, MC, DL was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War I, the interwar years, World War II, and post-war.-Early life and career:The son of the Reverend T. M...
(1898–1959), British soldier in the British Indian Army - William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)The Rev. William Rees , usually known in Wales by his bardic name of Gwilym Hiraethog, was a Welsh poet and author, one of the major figures of Welsh literature during the 19th century....
(1802–1883), writer - William Rees (cinematographer)William Rees (cinematographer)William Rees was an American cinematographer who filmed 33 movies between 1923 and 1935. His credits include Fancy Baggage, Under a Texas Moon, Murder at Midnight, The Maltese Falcon, The Case of the Howling Dog, The Kennel Murder Case, Housewife, and Fashions of 1934.-External links:...
(1904–1961) - William James ReesWilliam James ReesWilliam James Rees was a British hydroid and cephalopod researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. He described a number of species, including Sepia dubia, Sepia sewelli, and Sepia thurstoni.-References:...
(1913–1967), British hydroid and cephalopod researcher - William Rees (academic) (born 1943)
- William Rees (veterinarian)William Rees (veterinarian)William Howard Rees was the Chief Veterinary Officer of the United Kingdom from August 1980 to May 1988. Before this appointment he had worked as a MAFF Veterinary Officer from 1953 to 1980.-References:*...
, Chief Veterinary Officer of the United Kingdom from August 1980 to May 1988
Rees might also mean:
- Rees, GermanyRees, GermanyRees is a town in the district of Cleves in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the right bank of the Rhine, approx. 20 km east of Cleves...
, a city on the lower Rhine
- Rees's CyclopaediaRees's CyclopaediaRees's Cyclopædia, or The New Cyclopaedia, or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences was an important 19th Century encyclopaedia which was regarded by some as subversive when it first appeared. It was edited by Revd...
, a nineteenth-century encyclopedia, particularly rich in coverage of science and technology - Otway-Rees protocolOtway-Rees protocolThe Otway–Rees protocol is a computer network authentication protocol designed for use on insecure networks . It allows individuals communicating over such a network to prove their identity to each other while also preventing eavesdropping or replay attacks and allowing for the detection of...
, a computer network authentication protocol