Black Welsh people

Clockwise from top left: John Ystumllyn, one of the first Black Welsh people to be recorded historically in the eighteenth century. Dame Shirley Bassey, The first Black Briton and the first Welsh person to have a UK Number one record in 1959. Colin Charvis, the first black person to captain the Wales national rugby union team in 2002. First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething, the first black leader of any European country in 2024.

Black Welsh people are the inhabitants of Wales who have an African or an Afro-Caribbean background and are black. Wales is home to one of the United Kingdom's oldest black communities, and Tiger Bay in Cardiff has housed a large Somali population since the development of the port in the 19th century. The 2011 census reported that there were more than 18,000 Welsh-African people in Wales (0.6% of the Welsh population).

The first recorded black person to live in North Wales, of whom historians have detailed knowledge, was John Ystumllyn (died 1786), a Gwynedd gardener whose origins are unrecorded.

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