List of Famous people born in Bradford, United Kingdom
Zayn Malik
Zain Javadd Malik, known mononymously as Zayn, is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Bradford, Malik auditioned as a solo contestant for the British music competition The X Factor in 2010. After being eliminated as a solo performer, Malik was brought back into the competition, along with four other contestants, to form the boy band One Direction. Malik left the group in March 2015 and subsequently signed a solo recording contract with RCA Records.
Kate Robbins
Kate Elizabeth Robbins is an English actress, comedian, singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in the early 1980s when she scored a No. 2 hit on the UK Charts with the song "More Than in Love", while she was appearing in the television soap opera Crossroads. She went on to become a prolific voice actress, most notably for nine years with the satirical show Spitting Image.
Mason Greenwood
Mason Will John Greenwood is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
Anita Rani
Anita Rani Nazran, better known as Anita Rani, is a British radio and television presenter.
Allan Holdsworth
Allan Holdsworth was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist and composer.
Fabian Delph
Fabian Delph is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Everton and the England national team.
Timothy West
Timothy Lancaster West, CBE is an English film, stage, presenter and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. As well as many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both Coronation Street and EastEnders, and also in Not Going Out, as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; since 2014 they have been seen travelling together on British and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series Great Canal Journeys.
John Sewel, Baron Sewel
John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel, CBE, is a British politician, life peer, and former academic. He was the Chairman of Committees of the House of Lords, its deputy speaker. He is also a former senior vice principal of the University of Aberdeen and former parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.
Adil Rashid
Adil Usman Rashid is an English cricketer who plays for Yorkshire and England as a leg spinner. Rashid was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
David Hockney
David Hockney, is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.