Jones
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A new Guinness World Record for the largest same surname gathering was set on Friday, 3rd November 2006 at the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff with a mass get-together of 1,224 Joneses. The gathering comfortably beat the previous same surname record held by a group of 583 Norbergs in Sweden.
Jones is the most common surname in Wales and Britain's second most common after Smith. The name is patronymic and means: Son of John.
Famous Joneses in ffaith
- Bryn Jones International footballer
- Catherine Zeta-Jones Hollywood actress
- Colin Jones boxer
- Cliff Jones (footballer) International footballer
- Cliff Jones (rugby player) International rugby player
- Geraint Jones International Cricketer
- Ivor Jones (footballer) International footballer
- Ivor Jones (rugby player) International rugby player
- Jeff Jones
- Ken Jones (footballer)
- Ken Jones (rugby player)
- Percy Jones Boxer
- Pryce Pryce-Jones Entrepreneur
- Reginald Truscott-Jones (Ray Milland) Hollywood Actor
- Simon Jones International cricketer
- Terry Jones Actor and Film director
- William Jones (footballer) Football player
- William Jones (mathematician) Mathematician