Jamie Roberts (born 8 November 1986) is a Welsh international rugby union footballer currently playing for Cardiff Blues in the Pro12 league. He also plays for the Wales and the British and Irish lions. Roberts' position of choice is as a centre.

Roberts represented Wales at all levels between Under 16s and Under 19s, and once again for the Under 21s. He was part of the Under 21s team which won the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2005. During the 2005–06 season, he represented Cardiff RFC. He played eleven times and scored five tries. In the 2006–07 season, he picked up a shoulder injury but recovered to play 17 times and score 10 tries for his amateur club.

With players away at the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Roberts called up to play for the Cardiff Blues, making his debut against the Ospreys. The Blues won 17–15 in the first Magners League match to have a video referee. In the next two matches against the Dragons and Glasgow Warriors, he scored three tries, one against the former and two against the latter. This form led to continual selection for the Blues and led to selection in the Welsh squad for the Six Nations.

Matthew Andrew Banahan (born 30 December 1986 in Jersey) is a Jerseyman who plays rugby union for Bath in the Aviva Premiership and England in international rugby union. His main position is wing, and he can also operate as an outside centre.

Banahan grew up playing field hockey, earning selection to the Jersey and West of England junior representative sides before he decided his hockey career was stalled and switching to rugby union. Banahan went to La Moye school and Les Quennevais School.

Banahan moved to Bath, after previously appearing for the London Irish Academy and was brought to the Recreation Ground as a lock.

Banahan joined Bath Rugby from the London Irish Academy in the summer of 2006. The giant wing, took up rugby after deciding that he was not going to get any further in his hockey career (he had represented Jersey and the West of England). He has also been involved with the RFU’s Junior National Academy set-up and, England's sevens set up.

Unsurprisingly given his physical attributes, he started as a lock but switched to wing where his powerful combination of size, strength and speed made him a potent weapon in the Bath United and Development sides, for whom he scored ten tries in fourteen games last season.

Sam Kennedy-Warburton (born 5 October 1988), commonly known as Sam Warburton, is a Welsh rugby union player. Warburton plays regional rugby for the Cardiff Blues and was first capped for Wales in 2009. In August 2011 he was named as the Welsh Captain for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Born in Wales to a Welsh mother and English Londoner father, Warburton has a older twin brother Ben who played at semi-professional level with Glamorgan Wanderers and is now a physiotherapist for the Newport Gwent Dragons Youth Academy, and an older sister Holly, a schoolteacher. He attended Whitchurch High School and left with 3 A Levels. As a youngster he was a keen football player and played for his school team alongside schoolmate Tottenham Hotspur and Wales wingback Gareth Bale. He had a trial with local club Cardiff City at the age of 14 but chose to concentrate on rugby instead. He played on the junior teams of Rhiwbina RFC and briefly played for Glamorgan Wanderers RFC before joining the Cardiff Blues.

Warburton represented Wales at all levels, including being captain of the U18`s, U19`s and he was captain of the Wales Under-20 team for the 2007–08 season. He led Wales to the under 19`s and under 20`s world cup semi finals. Warburton made his debut for the senior Wales national rugby union team on 6 June 2009 versus the USA. Versatile enough to play anywhere in the backrow he made his regional debut for the Cardiff Blues away to Edinburgh in 2009 and his excellent form, including a man of the match display against Munster, earned him a spot on the Welsh summer tour of North America. On tour he had an impressive debut coming on as a replacement against the USA and he has been tipped to succeed Martyn Williams as the Welsh and Blues openside flanker.

Stephen Leigh Halfpenny (born 22 December 1988) is a Welsh international rugby union footballer who plays for the Cardiff Blues regional side.

Halfpenny is from Gorseinon, near Swansea, and is an alumnus of Pontybrenin Primary School, as well as Penyrheol Comprehensive school.

Leigh is currently studying physical geography at Aberystwyth University

A winger or alternate fullback, he was signed as a youth by the Neath Swansea Ospreys and played the 2005–2006 season with the Ospreys U18s. Halfpenny then trained with Neath RFC during the 2006–2007 season, before signing for the Cardiff Blues and making his debut against Ulster at the Ravenhill Stadium in May 2008, scoring three conversions in the 17–26 victory.

A former Wales Under 20 international, in October 2008 he was selected for the Wales national rugby union team squad for the 2008 Autumn internationals series.

He made his debut for Wales aged 19 in their first game of the autumn internationals against world champions, South Africa on 8 November 2008. He scored his first points for Wales from a penalty kick in the 15–20 loss. He went on to score his first two tries on his second cap against Canada on 14 November.

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band formed in 1986 consisting of James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar), Nicky Wire (bass, lyrics), and Sean Moore (drums, percussion). The band is part of the Cardiff music scene and were at their most prominent during the 1990s. They are colloquially known as "The Manics" or simply "Manics". Manic Street Preachers were originally a quartet but primary lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards vanished on 1 February 1995.

In 1992, the Manics released their debut album, Generation Terrorists. Their combination of androgynous glam punk imagery and critical social lyrics about "culture, alienation, boredom, and despair" soon gained them a loyal following and cult status. The band's later albums retained a leftist politicisation and intellectual lyrical style while adopting a broader alternative rock sound.

Following Edwards' disappearance, Bradfield, Moore, and Wire persisted with Manic Street Preachers and went on to gain critical and commercial success, becoming one of Britain's premier rock bands. Altogether, they have garnered eight Top 10 albums, fifteen Top 10 singles, and have reached number one three times with their 1998 This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours album, the 1998 "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" single, and the 2000 "The Masses Against the Classes" single.