List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Nathan Dyer
Nathan Antony Jonah Dyer is an English professional footballer who last played for Championship club Swansea City. He started playing as a teenager at Southampton, making the first team. He has also had loan spells with Sheffield United, Burnley and Leicester City, where he was part of the team that won the 2015–16 Premier League.
Trevor Phillips
Mark Trevor Phillips is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician. In March 2015, Phillips was appointed as the President of the Partnership Council of the John Lewis Partnership for a three-year term. His is the first external appointment since 1928.
Tony Barber
Anthony Ferraro Louis Barber is an English Australian Gold Logie award-winning television game show host, radio announcer and singer.
Mark Wright
Mark Wright is a former England international football player and English football manager. As a player, he had spells with Liverpool, Derby County, Southampton and Oxford United during the 1980s and 1990s. He made 45 appearances for the English national football team, and was a member of the team which reached the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup in 1990. At club level, the central defender won the 1992 FA Cup final as captain of Liverpool.
Scott Neal
Scott Neal is a British actor. He is best known for his roles in The Bill, first in guest roles as Ryan Keating and Carl Simms and later as a regular cast member as PC Luke Ashton. He is also known for his role in EastEnders as Jason Adams.
Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead
Anthony William Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead, is a British life peer who chairs the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery. He served as Director-General of the BBC between April 2013 and August 2020.
Clare Buckfield
Clare Buckfield is an English actress, best known for playing the role of Jenny Porter in the BBC sitcom 2point4 Children for most of the nineties and Natasha Stevens in the CBBC series Grange Hill.
Rob Lee
Robert Martin Lee is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder in the Premier League and Football League for Charlton Athletic, Newcastle United, Derby County, West Ham United, Oldham Athletic and Wycombe Wanderers.
Daniel Tammet
Daniel Tammet is an English essayist, novelist, poet, translator, and autistic savant. His memoir, Born on a Blue Day (2006), is about his early life with Asperger syndrome and savant syndrome, and was named a "Best Book for Young Adults" in 2008 by the American Library Association's Young Adult Library Services magazine. His second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, was one of France's best-selling books of 2009. His third book, Thinking in Numbers, was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom and in 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the United States and Canada.
Tony Knowles
Anthony "Tony" Knowles is an English former professional snooker player. He was a three times semi-finalist in the World Professional Snooker Championship in the 1980s.