Alun Jonathan Carter (13 December 1964 – August 2024) was a Welsh rugby union analyst and international player.
Born in Malpas, Newport, Carter was an adoptee and lived as a young child in West Germany, where his father had a job teaching children of British Forces personnel.
The family moved to Staffordshire on return to England, before settling in the Pontypool area when Carter was 14.
[1] Carter, a back row forward, played for Pontypool RFC during the 1980s, under the coaching of Ray Prosser.
[1] Following a season with French club Millau-Stade Olympique, Carter was signed by Newport RFC in 1990 and soon after had impressed enough to get a Wales call up for the 1991 Five Nations Championship, to fill the position of flanker.