List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Margaret Lee
Margaret Lee is a British actress who was a popular leading lady in Italian films in the 1960s and 1970s. She is the mother of production manager/producer Roberto Malerba and production coordinator Damian Anderson.
Nicko McBrain
Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain is an English musician and drummer of the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, which he joined in 1982. Having played in small pub bands from the age of 14, after graduating school McBrain paid his bills with session work before he joined a variety of artists, such as Streetwalkers, Pat Travers, and the French political band, Trust. He joined Iron Maiden in time to debut on their fourth album, Piece of Mind (1983), and has remained with them since, contributing to a total of thirteen studio releases.
Janick Gers
Janick Robert Gers is an English musician and one of the three guitarists in Iron Maiden. He was also previously a member of the bands Gillan and White Spirit.
Lawrence Vigouroux
Lawrence Vigouroux is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for League Two club Leyton Orient. Born in England, Vigouroux has represented Chile as a youth international.
Max Pirkis
Max Pirkis is an English actor. After appearing in two stage productions during the mid-2000s, Pirkis made his film debut in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), after the film crew recruited him at his school, Eton College. In a critically praised performance, he won the Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Promising Newcomer and the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in an International Film. Two years later, he was cast in the BBC/HBO television series Rome as Gaius Octavian, a role he held until 2007.
Reece Ritchie
Reece Ritchie is an English actor known for his role as Moha in 10,000 BC (2008), as Bis in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010), as jay in White Heat (2012), and as Zed the 'Blackblood' in The Outpost (2019).
Hugh Carthy
Hugh John Carthy is a British racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–Nippo. Carthy's nickname "Huge" was coined when his name was mispronounced by an announcer in the Giro d'Italia, but stuck due to his ability to produce huge efforts and dig deep.
Tony Woodcock
Anthony Stewart Woodcock is an English retired international footballer who played professionally in both England and Germany as a striker for Nottingham Forest, FC Köln and Arsenal. Woodcock won the European Cup in 1979 with Nottingham Forest.
Alfonso de Portago
Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton, 11th Marquess of Portago, GE, best known as Alfonso de Portago, was a Spanish aristocrat, racing and bobsleigh driver, jockey and pilot.
Adrian Smith
Adrian Frederick "H" Smith is an English guitarist, best known as a member of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden, for whom he writes songs and performs live backing vocals on some tracks.