List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Sweet Saraya
Julia Hamer-Bevis, better known by her ring names Sweet Saraya and Saraya Knight, is an English retired professional wrestler, trainer and promoter.
David Batty
David Batty is an English retired professional footballer, who played as a defensive midfielder.
Devante Cole
Devante Lavon Andrew Cole is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Premiership club Motherwell.
Neal Skupski
Neal Skupski is a British professional tennis player. He has a career-high of No. 16 in doubles, achieved on 19 April 2021. He is currently the British No. 2 in doubles. He is best known as a doubles player having played college tennis at the Louisiana State University, where he studied for a degree in sports administration. He turned professional in 2013. Neal is the younger brother of Ken Skupski Jr., with whom he has regularly partnered since 2013.
Richard Reid
Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the "Shoe Bomber", is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate a shoe bomb while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami in 2001. Born to a father who was a career criminal, Reid converted to Islam as a young man in prison after years as a petty criminal. Later he became radicalized and went to Pakistan and Afghanistan, where he trained and became a member of al-Qaeda.
Jason Atherton
Jason Atherton is an English chef and restaurateur. His restaurant Pollen Street Social gained a Michelin Star in 2011, its opening year. He was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred Maze in London until 30 April 2010. In 2014 he co-hosted the Sky Living TV series My Kitchen Rules.
John Coghlan
John Robert Coghlan is an English musician, best known as the original drummer of the rock band Status Quo.
Barbara Thompson
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE is an English jazz saxophonist. She studied saxophone and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. She was married to drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum from 1967 until his death in 2018.
Claire van Kampen
Claire Louise van Kampen, Lady Rylance is an English director, composer and playwright. She composed the music for Mark Rylance's 1989 performance as Hamlet and shared the 2007 Sam Wanamaker Award with him. Her composing credits include music for productions of the plays Days and Nights and Boeing-Boeing.
Banachek
Banachek is an English mentalist, magician, and "thought reader."