John Ceiriog Hughes (25 September 1832 – 23 April 1887), was a Welsh poet and collector of Welsh folk tunes. He was sometimes described as a Robert Burns of Wales. Ceiriog was born at Penybryn Farm, overlooking the village of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog in the Ceiriog Valley of north-east Wales, in Denbighshire at the time and now part of Wrexham County Borough. One of eight children, he was a favourite of his mother, Phoebe, who was a midwife and an expert in herbal medicine.