List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. His work has gained worldwide popularity.
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is a British musician, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his debut studio album Tubular Bells (1973), which became an unexpected critical and commercial success and propelled him to worldwide fame. Though primarily a guitarist, Oldfield is known for playing a range of instruments, which includes keyboards and percussion, and doing vocals. He has adopted a range of musical styles throughout his career, including progressive rock, world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new age music.
Ronni Ancona
Veronica Jane Ancona is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author. She first became well known after appearing in The Big Impression.
Joe Lewis
Joseph C. Lewis is a British businessman and investor.
Harris Dickinson
Harris Dickinson is an English actor. For starring in the drama Beach Rats (2017), he was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He has since played John Paul Getty III in the FX drama series Trust (2018), and starred in the films Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Matthias & Maxime.
Esther Rantzen
Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes, and founded the charities ChildLine, promoting child protection, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012.
George Ford
George Ford is an English professional rugby union player who plays at fly-half for Leicester Tigers and England.
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at $384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
Jonjoe Kenny
Jonjoe Kenny is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Premier League club Everton. He had also represented England at under-21 level. He came through the youth system of the Premier League side, where he has been a professional since July 2014.
Labrinth
Timothy Lee McKenzie, better known by his stage name Labrinth, is a British singer, songwriter, composer, rapper and record producer. After initially pursuing a career in music production, Simon Cowell signed him to his record label Syco Music as a recording artist, after which Labrinth became the first singer who Cowell signed without having competed on a talent show in six years. He has been referred to as “one of the most important British musicians of his generation.”