List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Daniel Dubois
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.
Joe Gilgun
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.
Jonny Wilkinson
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.
Samantha J. Power
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.
Charlotte Roche
Charlotte Elisabeth Grace Roche is a British-German television presenter, author, producer, and actress. She is best known for her 2009 novel Wetlands.
William Roache
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.
Andy McDonald
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.
Chris Kamara
Christopher Kamara is an English former professional footballer, and football manager who now works as a presenter and football analyst at Sky Sports.
Angel Gomes
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.
Karren Brady
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.