List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Chris Woakes

First Name Chris
Last Name Woakes
Born on March 2, 1989 (age 37)

Christopher Roger Woakes is an English cricketer who plays for Warwickshire County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. He was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup.

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Sophie Dahl

Sophie Holloway
First Name Sophie
Last Name Dahl
Born on September 15, 1977 (age 48)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Sophie Dahl is an English author and former fashion model. Her first novel was published in 2003, The Man with the Dancing Eyes, and followed by Playing With the Grown-ups in 2007. In 2009, she wrote Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights, a cookery book with recipes that were recreated for a six-part BBC 2 series, The Delicious Miss Dahl. In 2011 her cookery book, from Season to Season was published, and her first children's book, Madame Badobedah, was published in October 2019.

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Janice Long

Janice Chegwin
First Name Janice
Died on December 25, 2021 (aged 51)

Janice Berry is an English radio broadcaster best known for her work with BBC Radio. She has appeared on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, and currently BBC Radio Wales and Greatest Hits Radio. On Radio 2 she presented a weekday night time show from 2000 to 2017 from midnight. Long was presented with a BASCA Gold Badge award on 3 October 2016 for her unique contribution to music. In 1983, she became the first female presenter on the BBC television music chart programme Top of the Pops and remained the only female presenter of the programme for the ensuing five years.

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Christian Wade

First Name Christian
Last Name Wade
Born on May 15, 1991 (age 35)
Height 174 cm | 5'9

Christian Wade is an English American football player and former rugby union player, currently a running back for the practice squad of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL). He previously played rugby union for Wasps, and won one cap for England, as a wing.

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Winston McKenzie

First Name Winston
Last Name McKenzie
Born on October 23, 1953 (age 72)

Winston Truman McKenzie is a British political activist and perennial candidate for public office. He is a founder and leader of Unity in Action. He has been a member of every major political party, and has stood as an independent or minor party candidate on numerous occasions without success.

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James Dyson

First Name James
Last Name Dyson
Born on May 2, 1947 (age 79)
Net Worth $9.7B

Sir James Dyson is a British inventor, industrial designer, landowner and entrepreneur who founded Dyson Ltd. Traditionally, he is best known as the inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, which works on the principle of cyclonic separation. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2020, he is Britain's richest person with an estimated net worth of £16.2 billion. He served as the Provost of the Royal College of Art from August 2011 to July 2017, and opened a new University, the Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, on Dyson's Wiltshire Campus in September 2017.

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Kim Wilde

First Name Kim
Last Name Wilde
Born on November 18, 1960 (age 65)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author, DJ and television presenter. She first saw success in 1981 with her debut single "Kids in America", which reached number two in the UK. In 1983, she received the Brit Award for Best British Female solo artist. In 1986, she had a UK number two hit with a reworked version of the Supremes' song "You Keep Me Hangin' On", which also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1987. Between 1981 and 1996, she had 25 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK singles chart. Her other hits include "Chequered Love" (1981), "You Came" (1988) and "Never Trust a Stranger" (1988). In 2003, she collaborated with Nena on the song "Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime", which topped the Dutch charts.

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Gerald Ratner

First Name Gerald
Last Name Ratner
Born on November 1, 1949 (age 76)

Gerald Irving Ratner is a British businessman and motivational speaker. He was formerly chief executive officer of the major British jewellery company Ratners Group. He achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated two of the company's products. He currently speaks around the world at corporate and promotional events.

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Peter Davison

First Name Peter
Last Name Davison
Born on April 13, 1951 (age 75)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett, known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms. He became famous as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories. His subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort and Sink or Swim, the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice and Albert Campion in Campion. He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites, "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK.

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Sofia Hayat

First Name Sofia
Born on December 6, 1984 (age 41)

Sofia Hayat is singer, actress and television personality. She participated in Bigg Boss 7 in 2013.

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