List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Chelsee Healey
Chelsea "Chelsee" Jade Healey is an English actress. She is known for playing Janeece Bryant in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road from 2006 to 2012, Honey Wright in the BBC medical drama series Casualty from 2014 until 2015 and Goldie McQueen in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from 2016 onwards.
Stewart Downing
Stewart Downing is an English professional footballer who currently plays for Blackburn Rovers. He has played most of his career as a winger, where he operates predominantly on the left-hand side, though he can play on the right and go inside on to his stronger left foot. Downing has played more recently as an attacking midfielder.
Tara Fitzgerald
Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald is a British actress who has appeared in feature films, television, radio and the stage. She won the New York Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play in 1995 as Ophelia in Hamlet. She won the Best Actress Award at The Reims International Television Festival in 1999 for her role of Lady Dona St Columb in Frenchman's Creek. Fitzgerald has appeared in the West End production of The Misanthrope at the Comedy Theatre, and in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse. Since 2007, Fitzgerald has appeared in more than 30 episodes of the BBC television series Waking the Dead and played the role of Selyse Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Lucy Fallon
Lucy Fallon is an English actress. She played Bethany Platt in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2015–2020). The role has earned her widespread recognition and several accolades, including two British Soap Awards, an Inside Soap Award, and a National Television Award.
Paul Blackthorne
Paul Blackthorne is an English actor. Although born in Shropshire, England, he spent his early childhood on British military bases in England and Germany.
Arthur Darvill
Thomas Arthur Darvill is a British actor and musician. He is known for playing Rory Williams, one of the Eleventh Doctor's companions in the television series Doctor Who (2010–2012), Rip Hunter in Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2018) and as Rev. Paul Coates in Broadchurch (2013–2017). From 2013 to 2014 he appeared in the lead role in the theatre musical Once in the West End and on Broadway.
David Dickinson
David Dickinson MBE is an English antiques expert and television presenter. Between 2000 and 2004, Dickinson hosted the BBC One antiques show Bargain Hunt, where he was succeeded by Tim Wonnacott. Dickinson left the BBC in 2005 and since 2006, Dickinson has been hosting the ITV daytime show Dickinson's Real Deal. The show sees members of the public bringing antiques and collectables to sell to a dealer or take to the auction.
Deborah Meaden
Deborah Sonia Meaden is a British businesswoman and TV personality who ran a multimillion-pound family holiday business, before completing a management buyout, but is now best known for her appearances on the BBC Two business programme Dragons' Den.
Gamal Yafai
Gamal Yafai is a British professional boxer who held the Commonwealth super-bantamweight title in 2016 and is the current European Super-Bantamweight Champion since December 2020. As an amateur he won a bronze medal at the 2010 European Championships in Moscow.
Jack McManus
Jack Michael McManus is a BRIT School-educated singer-songwriter from West Wickham, London, in England. In 2012 he married actress and singer Martine McCutcheon.