1761 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1761 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1761 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, volume 1
John Wesley - Rules of the United Societies, translated into Welsh by John Evans of Bala.^[1]

16 February - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Welsh-descended noblewoman and Baroness Gwydyr (died 1828)
15 July - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (died 1849)
11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
date unknown
- Charles Heath, Radical printer and writer, twice Mayor of Monmouth, in Worcestershire (died 1831)
- Elizabeth Whitlock, sister of Sarah Siddons and Julia Ann Hatton
- Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, in Scotland (died 1827)^[2]

4 February - Samuel Davies, Welsh-descended evangelist in America, 37 (pneumonia)
8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
27 April - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton, Welsh-descended politician, ?31

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