Roy Lyon Evans OBE (13 August 1931 – 3 December 2015) was a British trade unionist.
He was educated at Gowerton Grammar School, leaving at the age of sixteen to work in a tin mill.
[1] Evans completed National Service with the Royal Air Force and joined both the Labour Party and the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC).
The following year, he was elected to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Labour Party, on which he voted not to back Peter Tatchell as a candidate, and opposed the Militant Tendency.
[1] Evans was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on his retirement, and returned to live in Wales with his wife.