The results were announced on 1 March (St David's Day) 2004 and subsequently published in a book.
[1] The poll was operated by Culturenet Cymru, a Welsh Assembly-funded body based at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
[2] 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,[3] 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.
[4] Only nine of the list of a hundred are female, of whom Catherine Zeta-Jones was the most popular, with 1136 votes.