List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Peter Bottomley

First Name Peter
Last Name Bottomley
Born on July 30, 1944 (age 81)

Sir Peter James Bottomley is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1975. He has represented the Worthing West constituency since 1997.

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Amy Johnson

First Name Amy
Last Name Johnson
Born on July 1, 1903
Died on January 5, 1941 (aged 37)

Amy Johnson was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.

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Kate Silverton

First Name Kate
Last Name Silverton
Born on August 4, 1970 (age 55)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Kate Silverton is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC. Generally a main and relief presenter for the BBC, Silverton can be seen regularly presenting the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, and BBC Weekend News, and is the current Deputy Presenter of the BBC News at One as well as making occasional appearances on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2018 she participated in the series 16 of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec finishing in 8th place.

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Imogen Heap

Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap
First Name Imogen
Born on December 9, 1977 (age 48)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Imogen Jennifer Heap is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, and audio engineer. Her work has been considered pioneering in pop and electropop music.

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Steve Backshall

First Name Steve
Last Name Backshall
Born on April 21, 1973 (age 53)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Stephen James Backshall is a BAFTA-winning English naturalist, explorer, writer and television presenter, best known for BBC TV's Deadly 60.

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Andy Burnham

First Name Andy
Last Name Burnham
Born on January 7, 1970 (age 56)

Andrew Murray Burnham is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Mayor of Greater Manchester since 2017. He served in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2007 to 2008, Culture Secretary from 2008 to 2009 and Health Secretary from 2009 to 2010. Burnham served as Shadow Home Secretary from 2015 to 2016 and was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 2001 to 2017. North of England.

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Samantha Fox

Samantha Karen Fox
First Name Samantha
Born on April 15, 1966 (age 60)
Height 155 cm | 5'1

Samantha Karen Fox is a British singer, songwriter, actress, and former glamour model. In 1983, at age 16, she began appearing as a topless model on Page 3 of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, and continued as a Page 3 girl until 1986. During this time, Fox became the most popular pin-up girl of her era, as well as one of the most photographed British women of the 1980s.

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Sophie Cookson

First Name Sophie
Last Name Cookson
Born on May 15, 1990 (age 36)
Height 161 cm | 5'3

Sophie Louise Cookson is an English actress best known for portraying secret agent Roxanne "Roxy" Morton / Lancelot in the 2015 spy film Kingsman: The Secret Service and its 2017 sequel The Golden Circle, and for playing the title role of Christine Keeler in the BBC One drama series, The Trial of Christine Keeler.

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Gus Kenworthy

First Name Gus
Born on October 1, 1991 (age 34)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Augustus Richard Kenworthy is a British-American freestyle skier, actor, and YouTuber. He competes in slopestyle, halfpipe and big air. Kenworthy won the silver medal in Men's slopestyle at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. As of 2019, Kenworthy represents Great Britain. He was cast as Chet Clancy in the ninth season of the horror anthology series American Horror Story: 1984.

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Denise Lewis

First Name Denise
Last Name Lewis
Born on August 27, 1972 (age 53)

Denise Lewis,, is a British sports presenter and former track and field athlete, who specialised in the heptathlon. She won the gold medal in the heptathlon at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, was twice Commonwealth Games champion, was the 1998 European Champion and won World Championships silver medals in 1997 and 1999. She was the first European to win the Olympic heptathlon, though Europeans, including Briton Mary Peters, had won the Olympic pentathlon precursor event.

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