List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Daniel Dubois

First Name Daniel
Last Name Dubois
Born on September 6, 1997 (age 28)
Height 196 cm | 6'5

Daniel Raphael Dubois is a British professional boxer. He has formerly held the British, Commonwealth, WBC Silver, and WBO International heavyweight titles. He is known for his punching power and currently holds a 93.3% knockout-to-win percentage. As an amateur, he was a five-time national junior titlist and British amateur champion.

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Joe Gilgun

First Name Joe
Last Name Gilgun
Born on March 9, 1984 (age 42)

Joseph William Gilgun is an English actor known for several roles, including that of Vinnie O'Neill in the Sky One series Brassic, Eli Dingle in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, Jamie Armstrong in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, Woody in the film This Is England (2006) and its subsequent spin-off series, and Rudy Wade in E4's Misfits. From 2016 to 2019, he starred in the AMC television adaptation of the Vertigo comic Preacher as the Irish vampire Cassidy.

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Jonny Wilkinson

Jonathan Peter Wilkinson
First Name Jonny
Last Name Wilkinson
Born on May 25, 1979 (age 47)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Jonathan Peter Wilkinson, CBE is an English former rugby union player. A fly-half, he played for Newcastle Falcons and Toulon and represented England and the British and Irish Lions. He is particularly known for scoring the winning drop goal in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final and is widely acknowledged as one of the best rugby union players of all time.

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Samantha J. Power

First Name Samantha

Samantha Jane Power is an American academic, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Charlotte Roche

First Name Charlotte
Last Name Roche
Born on March 18, 1978 (age 48)

Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche is a British-German television presenter, author, producer, and actress. She is best known for her 2009 novel Wetlands.

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William Roache

First Name William
Last Name Roache
Born on April 25, 1932 (age 94)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

William Patrick Roache is an English actor. He is best known for playing Ken Barlow on the long-running soap opera Coronation Street since it was first broadcast on 9 December 1960. He is listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest-serving male television star in a continuous role.

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Andy McDonald

First Name Andy
Last Name McDonald
Born on March 8, 1958 (age 68)

Andrew Joseph McDonald is a British Labour politician and solicitor. He served as Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet from 2016 to 2020, and as Shadow Secretary of State for Employment Rights and Protections under Keir Starmer before resigning in September 2021. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough in the House of Commons since 2012.

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Chris Kamara

Christopher Kamara
First Name Chris
Last Name Kamara
Born on December 25, 1957 (age 68)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Christopher Kamara is an English former professional footballer, and football manager who now works as a presenter and football analyst at Sky Sports.

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Angel Gomes

Adilson Angel Abreu de Almeida Gomes
First Name Angel
Last Name Gomes
Born on August 31, 2000 (age 25)
Height 161 cm | 5'3

Adilson Angel Abreu de Almeida Gomes is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Portuguese club Boavista, on loan from French club Lille.

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Karren Brady

First Name Karren
Born on April 4, 1969 (age 57)
Height 166 cm | 5'5

Karren Rita Brady, Baroness Brady, is a British sporting executive, politician, television personality, newspaper columnist, author and novelist. She is the former managing director of Birmingham City F.C. and current vice-chairman of West Ham United F.C.. She is featured in the BBC One series The Apprentice as an aide to Alan Sugar. She was the Small Business Ambassador to the UK Government under Prime Minister David Cameron.

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