List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Joan Jara
Joan Jara is a British-Chilean dancer, activist, and widow of Chilean icon, communist and folksinger Víctor Jara. Since his death, she dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of him, his work, and his values. She wrote An Unfinished Song: The Life of Victor Jara in 1984, and founded the Víctor Jara Foundation.
Gordon Milne
Gordon Milne is an English former footballer and football manager.
Linus Roache
Linus William Roache is an English actor. He is known for playing Executive ADA Michael Cutter in the NBC dramas Law & Order (2008–2010) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011–2012). More recently, Roache played Ecgberht, King of Wessex in Vikings in 2014.
Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles Elton is a British comedian, author, playwright, musical librettist, actor and director. He was a part of London's alternative comedy movement of the 1980s and became a writer on the sitcoms The Young Ones and Blackadder, as well as continuing as a stand-up comedian on stage and television. His style in the 1980s was left-wing political satire. Since then he has published 16 novels and written the musicals The Beautiful Game (2000), We Will Rock You (2002), Tonight's the Night (2003) and Love Never Dies (2010), the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. His novels cover the dystopian, comedy, and crime genres.
Paul Dolan
Paul Dolan, is Head of Department and Professor of Behavioural Science in Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Director of the Executive MSc in Behavioural Science which began in September 2014. Dolan conducts research on the measurement of happiness, its causes and consequences, and the implications for public policy, publishing in both scholarly and popular outlets. He has previously held academic posts at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and Imperial and he has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University. He is the author of two popular press books: Happiness by Design and Happy Ever After.
Robert Emms
Robert Emms is an English film, stage and television actor, known for portraying Pythagoras in the BBC One fantasy-adventure series Atlantis.
David White
David White is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward from 1985 to 1998.
Trevor Francis
Trevor John Francis is an English former footballer who played as a forward for a number of clubs in England, Scotland, Italy and the United States. In 1979 he became Britain's first £1 million player following his transfer from Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest. He scored the winning goal for Forest in the 1979 European Cup final against Malmö. He won the European Cup again with the club the following year. At international level, he played for England 52 times between 1976 and 1986, scoring 12 goals, and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup.
Lord David Dundas
Lord David Paul Nicholas Dundas is an English musician and actor, best known for his chart success in the pop genre during the 1970s as well as his later career in film and television scores.
Simon Lilly
Simon John Lilly FRS is a Professor in the Department of Physics at ETH Zürich.