List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Jane Leeves
Jane Elizabeth Leeves is an English actress. She played Daphne Moon on the television sitcom Frasier from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. She is also known for her role as Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland.
Nikita Parris
Nikita Josephine Parris is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for French Division 1 Féminine club Olympique Lyonnais and the England national team. She previously played for Manchester City and Everton in England's Women's Super League.
Aaron Simpson
Aaron Simpson is an English professional footballer who last played as a right back for National League club Sutton United. He has previously played for Maidstone United and on loan at Portsmouth, AFC Telford United, Kilmarnock, FC Jumilla, Waterford and Dover Athletic.
Joe Thomas
Joseph Owen Thomas is an English actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for playing Simon Cooper in the award-winning E4 sitcom The Inbetweeners (2008–2010) and its two film adaptions, The Inbetweeners Movie (2011) and The Inbetweeners 2 (2014), both achieving box office success.
Kerry Howard
Kerry Elizabeth Howard is an English actress. She played Laura in the BBC Three comedy series Him & Her and Leanne in Witless. She also appears in BBC Three "Feed My Funny" comedy sketches with Lu Corfield and acted as courtroom clerk in the first series of Judge Romesh.
Harriet Dart
Harriet Dart is a British tennis player.
Gillian Taylforth
Gillian Taylforth is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Kathy Beale on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, and has also appeared as Jackie Pascoe/Webb on ITV's Footballers' Wives (2002–2006), and as Sgt. Nikki Wright in ITV's The Bill (2006–2008). She has also appeared in film during her early career, has presented on ITV's Loose Women and appeared as a celebrity contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2008.
Angela Rippon
Angela May Rippon is an English television journalist, newsreader, writer and presenter. Rippon presented radio and television news programmes in South West England before moving to BBC One's Nine O'Clock News, becoming a regular presenter in 1975. She was the first female journalist permanently to present the BBC national television news, and the second female news presenter on British television after Barbara Mandell on Independent Television News (ITN) in 1955.
Jamie Hewlett
Jamie Christopher Hewlett is an English comic creator, animator, designer, illustrator, and director, best known as the creator of the comic book Tank Girl and co-creator of the virtual band Gorillaz, alongside Blur frontman Damon Albarn.
Nathan Aspinall
Nathan Aspinall is an English professional darts player currently playing in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events. He won the 2019 UK Open with a 170 checkout in the final leg against former World Champion Rob Cross.