List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Billy Sharp

Billy Louis Sharp
First Name Billy
Last Name Sharp
Born on February 5, 1986 (age 40)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Billy Louis Sharp is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Sheffield United.

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Cliff Parisi

First Name Cliff
Last Name Parisi
Born on May 24, 1960 (age 66)

Cliff Parisi is an English actor, known for his roles as Minty Peterson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders and Fred Buckle in the BBC period drama Call the Midwife. In 2019, he participated in the nineteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

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Piers Corbyn

First Name Piers
Last Name Corbyn
Born on March 10, 1947 (age 79)

Piers Richard Corbyn is an English weather forecaster, businessman, activist, anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist. He rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, describes vaccines as dangerous and describes COVID-19 as a "hoax". He is the elder brother of former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

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George Lamb

First Name George
Last Name Lamb
Born on December 20, 1979 (age 46)

George Martin Lamb is an English radio and television presenter, currently presenting Football Tonight on BT Sport. In 2012, Lamb presented the Channel 4 game show The Bank Job.

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Katherine Parkinson

First Name Katherine
Born on July 8, 1977 (age 48)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Katherine Jane Parkinson is an English actress known for her work in television and theatre. She has appeared in several comedy series, including as Jen Barber in Channel 4's The IT Crowd, for which she received a British Comedy Best TV Actress Award in 2009 and 2014, and for which she was nominated twice for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance, winning once in 2014. Parkinson studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has appeared on stage in numerous plays, including The Seagull (2007), Cock (2009) and Home, I'm Darling (2018), for which she was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play.

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Jo Durie

First Name Jo
Last Name Durie
Born on July 27, 1960 (age 65)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Joanna Mary Durie is a former world No. 5 tennis player from the United Kingdom. During her career, she also reached No. 9 in doubles, and won two Grand Slam titles, both in the mixed doubles with Jeremy Bates.

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Hugh Dancy

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy
First Name Hugh
Born on June 19, 1975 (age 50)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the titular character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Sfc. Kurt Schmid in Black Hawk Down (2001) and Prince Charmont in Ella Enchanted (2004). Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). On television, he portrayed criminal profiler Will Graham in the NBC television series Hannibal (2013–2015), Cal Roberts in the Hulu original series The Path (2016–2018) and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex in the Channel 4 miniseries Elizabeth I (2005), the latter role earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.

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Adam Gemili

First Name Adam
Last Name Gemili
Born on October 6, 1993 (age 32)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Adam Gemili is a British sprinter. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, and 4 x 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold in the 2017 World Championships in the same event.

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Michael Portillo

First Name Michael
Last Name Portillo
Born on May 26, 1953 (age 73)

Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo is a British journalist, broadcaster and former politician known for presenting Great British Railway Journeys and Great Continental Railway Journeys. A former member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Enfield Southgate from 1984 to 1997 and Kensington and Chelsea from 1999 to 2005.

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Ed Miliband

Edward Samuel Miliband
First Name Ed
Last Name Miliband
Born on December 24, 1969 (age 56)

Edward Samuel Miliband is a British politician serving as Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy since 2020, and has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Doncaster North since 2005. He was previously Leader of the Labour Party and the Leader of the Opposition between 2010 and 2015, resigning after Labour's defeat at the 2015 general election. Alongside his brother, Foreign Secretary David Miliband, he served in the Cabinet from 2007 to 2010 under Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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