title: Hywel
text: # Hywel
  
  Hywel (Welsh pronunciation:), sometimes anglicised as Howel or Howell, is a Welsh masculine given name. It may refer to:
  
  ## Monarchs
  
  * Hywel the Great, late fifth- and early sixth-century noble in Brittany, saint and king of Brittany in the Arthurian legend.
  * Hywel ap Rhodri Molwynog, 9th-century king of Gwynedd
  * Hywel Dda or Hywel the Good (died 950), king of Deheubarth and much of the rest of Wales, famed as a lawgiver
  * Huwal of the West Welsh, 10th-century Welsh king, possibly identical to Hywel Dda
  
  ## Other people
  
  * Hywel ab Owain Gwynedd (died 1170), Welsh poet and military leader
  * Syr Hywel y Fwyall or Sir Hywel ap Gruffudd (fl. 1356–died 1381), Welsh knight
  * Hywel Bennett (1944–2017), Welsh actor
  * Hywel David Evans (1924–2019), Australian politician
  * Hywel Evans (figure skater) (born 1945), Welsh figure skater
  * Hywel Francis (1946–2021), Welsh historian and politician; MP for Aberavon
  * Hywel Griffith, BBC Wales news correspondent
  * Hywel Harris (1714–1773), Welsh Methodist preacher
  * Hywel Williams (born 1953), Welsh politician; MP for Arfon
  