The poll was operated by Culturenet Cymru, a
Welsh Assembly-funded body based at the
National Library of Wales in
Aberystwyth. At the time of the results being announced the organisers claimed that the 81,323 nominations and votes made it the largest online poll conducted in Wales. Former Labour leader
Neil Kinnock, himself named in the poll, had, during the voting, drawn attention to a
Welsh nationalist "plot" to have
Owain Glyndŵr at number one, rather than the eventual winner,
Aneurin Bevan. Only nine of the list of a hundred are female, of whom
Catherine Zeta-Jones was the most popular, with 1136 votes. ==Results==