Linford Rees

William Linford Llewellyn Rees CBE (24 October 1914 – 29 July 2004) was a Welsh psychiatrist,

Rees was born at Burry Port, the elder son of Edward Parry Rees, a Welsh-speaking teacher, and his wife Mary. He studied at Llanelli Grammar School. He obtained his medical degree from the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1938. After postgraduate education at the Maudsley Hospital in London, he developed a specialism in psychosomatic medicine and worked closely with Hans Eysenck. He later worked at Whitchurch Hospital in Cardiff and again at the Maudsley, before taking up his academic post at St Bartholomew's in 1996.

He married Catherine Thomas in 1940, and they had four children, including the actress Angharad Rees.