List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Ben Curran

First Name Ben
Last Name Curran
Born on June 7, 1996 (age 30)

Benjamin Jack Curran is an English cricketer who plays for Northamptonshire. Curran is a left-handed batsman. He is the son of former Zimbabwe international cricketer Kevin Curran, and the brother of England internationals Tom Curran and Sam Curran. He has previously represented the MCC Young Cricketers, and the Nottinghamshire Second XI.

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David McGreavy

First Name David
Last Name McGreavy
Born on November 30, 1950 (age 75)

David Anthony McGreavy is an English convicted murderer who in a drunken rage killed three children, aged four, two and nine months, in the United Kingdom in 1973. He was in the news in 2013 when an anonymity order imposed in 2009 was lifted based on findings that there was a public interest in his application for parole and that there was no immediate danger to his life. He was held in a vulnerable prisoners' unit, where he spent most of his 40 years in prison until he was released on parole in December 2018.

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Craig Mackey

First Name Craig
Last Name Mackey
Born on August 26, 1962 (age 63)

Sir Craig Thomas Mackey, is a former British police officer who served as Deputy Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service from 2012 until his retirement in 2018. Mackey previously held senior roles as Chief Constable of Cumbria Constabulary, in addition to chief officer posts in Wiltshire Constabulary, Gloucestershire Constabulary, and a specialist staff officer role in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).

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Jesse Armstrong

First Name Jesse
Last Name Armstrong
Born on December 13, 1970 (age 55)

Jesse David Armstrong is a British author, screenwriter and producer. He is the co-creator of the Channel 4 comedy series Peep Show (2003–2015) and Fresh Meat (2011–2016), and the creator of the HBO drama series Succession (2018–).

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Kirby Howell-Baptiste

First Name Kirby
Last Name Howell-Baptiste
Born on February 7, 1987 (age 39)
Height 168 cm | 5'6

Kirby Howell-Baptiste is an English actress. She has appeared as a series regular on Downward Dog (2017), Killing Eve (2018), and Why Women Kill (2019). Her television appearances also include recurring roles on Love (2016–2018), Barry (2018–2019), The Good Place (2018–2020), and the fourth season of Veronica Mars (2019), and a starring role in the second and third books of Infinity Train (2020) as Grace Monroe.

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Jonathan Woodgate

First Name Jonathan
Last Name Woodgate
Born on January 22, 1980 (age 46)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Jonathan Simon Woodgate is an English football coach and former player who is currently caretaker manager of AFC Bournemouth.

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David Warner

David Hattersley Warner
First Name David
Last Name Warner
Born on July 29, 1941
Died on July 24, 2022 (aged 80)

David Hattersley Warner is an English actor, who has worked in film, television, and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s through his lead performance in the Karel Reisz film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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Lita Ford

Lita Rossana Ford
First Name Lita
Last Name Ford
Born on September 19, 1958 (age 67)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Lita Rossana Ford is an English-born American hard rock guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. She was the lead guitarist for the all female rock band the Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a successful hard rock solo career in the 1980s. The 1989 single "Close My Eyes Forever", a duet with Ozzy Osbourne, remains Ford's most successful song, reaching No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

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Paul Young

Paul Antony Young
First Name Paul
Last Name Young
Born on January 17, 1956 (age 70)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Paul Antony Young is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips, he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s. His hit singles include "Love of the Common People", "Wherever I Lay My Hat", "Come Back and Stay", "Every Time You Go Away" and "Everything Must Change", all reaching the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. Released in 1983, his debut album No Parlez, the first of three UK number-one albums, made him a household name. His smooth yet soulful voice belonged to a genre known as "blue-eyed soul". At the 1985 Brit Awards, Young received the award for Best British Male. Associated with the Second British Invasion of the US, "Every Time You Go Away" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. It also won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards.

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Sophie Ward

First Name Sophie
Last Name Ward
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Sophie Anna Ward is an English actress and novelist. Early in her career she played Elizabeth Hardy, the love interest of Sherlock Holmes in the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes. She played Dr Helen Trent/Walker in British television police drama series Heartbeat in 40 episodes from 2004 to 2006. Ward's first novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was published in 2020.

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