Eight Crazy Things You Didn’t Know About Alun Wyn Jones

His name has caused much confusion over the years, sometimes Wyn Jones being listed as his surname and other times Alun-Wyn being hyphenated. Jones is his surname, with Alun Wyn his first names – with no hyphen!

He is the first player in the professional era to have played in nine consecutive Tests for the Lions having been involved in all three series.

In his youth, apart from having long hair, he had a pair of white rugby boots on, at a time when it was black or nothing. Second rows wearing white rugby boots was quite unusual. That’s how he got the nickname Alun Gwyn Boots.

Legendary Wales prop Adam Jones was best man at Alun Wyn Jones wedding. 

 Jones received an OBE in the Queen’s 2020 Birthday Honours for his services to rugby union football in Wales.

His father, Tim Jones, was a respected solicitor who also played rugby for Swansea, and his funeral in 2016 drew hundreds from the legal world and rugby world.

Alun Wyn Jones has a law degree from Swansea University and he graduated in 2010.

He married Dr Anwen Rees, who is a doctor of physiology, in 2014 and the couple have two daughters together, Mali and Efa.