Bishop William Morgan, who with others, was largely responsible for the first translation of the Bible into Welsh, which was published in 1588.

H. M. Stanley, journalist and explorer. He was born John Rowlands in Denbigh in 1842 but was moved to the workhouse which is now H. M. Stanley Hospital, when he was five years old.

Dic Aberdaron, (Richard Jones) who spent his life wandering through Wales and England. He was fluent in Welsh, English and seven other languages. His Welsh, Greek, Hebrew dictionary can be seen in the cathedral. He died in 1843 and is buried in the Parish Church.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet, who spent many years in the 1870’s in the theological college of St Beuno in Tremeirchion where he composed many of his famous sonnets, including ‘The Windhover’, inspired by the beautiful Vale of Clwyd.

Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet. Although born in Liverpool, she lived in her mother’s house in St Asaph from 1809-1825. She is probably best remembered for the line ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ in her poem ‘Casablanca’.

William Matthias, musician and composer, spent most of his professional life in N. Wales. He was Professor of Music in University College Bangor when he initiated the N. Wales International Music Festival in St Asaph in 1972. His church music and carols are still performed world wide. He is buried in the cathedral grounds, with a simple headstone.