Usk as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist (1823-1913), Heir presumptive to Richard II of England between 1385 and 1398, Welsh cricketer): Alfred Russel Wallace, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, Allan Watkins and some more.
Celebrities from Usk