Rhys
Rhys or Rhŷs is a popular Welsh given name, which is famous in Welsh history and also used as a surname. It originates from Deheubarth, an old region of South West Wales, with famous Kings such as Rhys ap Tewdwr.
It is pronounced in North Wales, in South Wales, and in English.
Anglicised forms of the name include Reece, Rees, and Reese.People with the name
Given name
History
- Rhys ap Gruffydd, 12th-century ruler of southern Wales
- Sir Rhys ap Gruffydd, 14th-century Welsh nobleman
- Rhys ap Gruffydd , executed 16th-century Welsh landowner
- Rhys ap Tewdwr, 11th-century prince of southern Wales
- Rhys ap Thomas, a Welsh soldier and landholder who was instrumental in the victory of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field
- Rhys Lewis, MP for New Radnor Boroughs October 1553 and 1558
Modern times
- Rhys Bobridge, Australian singer and dancer
- Rhys Chatham, American avant-garde "guitar orchestra" composer
- Rhys Coiro, American film actor and singer
- Rhys Darby, stand-up comedian from New Zealand
- Rhys Davies, Welsh golfer
- Rhys Day, Welsh footballer
- Rhys Evans, English footballer
- Rhys Fulber, Canadian musician
- Rhys Gemmell, former tennis player from Australia
- Rhys Hanbury, Australian rugby league footballer
- Rhys Hoskins, American professional baseball player
- Rhys Huber, Canadian voice actor
- Rhys Hughes, Welsh writer
- Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor
- Rhys L. Isaac, professor
- Rhys Jones, multiple people
- Rhys Jenkins, rugby union player
- Rhys Millen, car racer
- Rhys Muldoon, Australian actor
- Rhys Oakley, Wales international rugby union player
- Rhys Palmer, Australian rules footballer
- Rhys Patchell Welsh rugby union player
- Rhys Priestland, Welsh rugby union player
- Rhys Rhys-Williams, British Liberal Party politician
- Rhys Stanley, Australian rules footballer
- Rhys Taylor, Welsh footballer
- Rhys Thomas , English comedian and actor
- Rhys M. Thomas, Welsh international rugby union player
- Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor
- Rhys Webb, Welsh rugby union player
- Rhys Wesser, Australian professional rugby league footballer
- Rhys Williams , Welsh rugby union player
- Rhys H. Williams , Welsh rugby union player
;As a middle name or compound last name, Rhys may refer to:
- Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian and presenter
- T. Rhys Thomas, Wales international rugby union player
Surname
As a last name, Rhys may refer to:
- Beti Rhys,, Welsh bookstore owner and author
- Elen Rhys, Welsh actress
- Ernest Rhys, English writer
- Gruff Rhys, vocalist and guitarist
- Jean Rhys, Caribbean writer
- Sir John Rhys, Celtic scholar at Oxford
- John Llewellyn Rhys, an airman memorialised by John Llewellyn Rhys prize
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
- Keidrych Rhys, Welsh literary journalist and editor
- Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
- Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister
- Paul Rhys, Welsh television, film and theatre actor
- Phillip Rhys, English actor
- Siôn Dafydd Rhys, Welsh physician and grammarian
- John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor
Fictional characters
- Rhys Winterborne from Marrying Winterborne, by Lisa Kleypas
- Rhys, from the series A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
- Rhys, in the ' video game
- Rhys, in the Merry Gentry book series by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Rhys, the central character of the first generation of Phantasy Star III
- Rhys, a main player-character from the Tales from the Borderlands video game
- Rhys, in The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
- Rhys Ashworth, on the British soap Hollyoaks
- Rhys Dahl, in Switched by Amanda Hlcking
- Rhys Lawson, from the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Rhys Lewis, the eponymous subject of the 1885 novel by Daniel Owen
- Rhys Maelwaedd, a character of the Deverry Cycle book series
- Rhys Rhysson, the Low King of the dwarfs in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books
- Rhys Williams, in the BBC science fiction series Torchwood
- Rhys, an elvish hunter in the Gilt-Leaf tribe, from the Lorwyn and Shadowmoor blocks of the collectible card game, '
- Rhys Sutherland, in the Home and Away television series
