List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Mandy Smith
Amanda Louise Smith is an English former pop singer and model. She became famous as a teenager in the 1980s due to her romantic relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, who was 34 years her senior.
Emma Thomas
Emma Thomas Nolan is an English film producer, known for frequent collaborations with her husband, filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Her producing credits include: The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). Inception and Dunkirk were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Angus Deayton
Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You, a job from which he was dismissed in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid allegations about his personal life. He was also the host of British panel show Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2008.
Nick Blackwell
Nick Blackwell is a British former professional boxer who was born in Trowbridge and was taught at the John of gaunt school, he competed from 2009 to 2016. He won the English middleweight title in 2010, at the age of twenty, becoming the youngest boxer to do so. In 2011 and 2012 he challenged for the Commonwealth middleweight title, and won the British middleweight title in 2015. Blackwell's career was cut short in 2016 after he was forced to retire due to a serious head injury sustained in the ring.
Simon Yates
Simon Yates is an English mountaineer. He has described himself as 'an adventurer'. Yates is most well known as being one of two British mountaineers that conquered the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in the Huayhuash mountain range in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. He and Joe Simpson completed the difficult climb, at times enduring extreme weather conditions. They subsequently survived a dramatic series of events on the descent. Simpson recounted the story in the book Touching the Void, which was later adapted into a film.
Gareth Malone
Gareth Edmund Malone is an English choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing". He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as The Choir, which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants. Malone was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music.
Jade Jones
Jade Jones is an English R&B singer turned chef. He is best known for being the lead singer of the band Damage. He was born to a British-Jamaican father and an English mother.
Lina M. Khan
Lina M. Khan is an American legal scholar who is the current Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission. She previously was an associate professor of law at Columbia Law School.
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace
Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace is an English television personality, model and columnist who rose to fame in 2006 when she appeared in the seventh series of reality television show Big Brother.
Elizabeth Henstridge
Elizabeth Frances Henstridge is an English actress and director. She is best known for starring as Jemma Simmons in the ABC superhero action drama series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020), set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe.