List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Graham Swift

Graham Colin Swift
First Name Graham
Last Name Swift
Born on May 4, 1949 (age 77)

Graham Colin Swift FRSL is an English writer. Born in London, England, he was educated at Dulwich College, London, Queens' College, Cambridge, and later the University of York.

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Charles Stross

Charles David George Stross
First Name Charles
Last Name Stross
Born on October 18, 1964 (age 62)

Charles David George "Charlie" Stross is a British writer of science fiction and fantasy. Stross specialises in hard science fiction and space opera. Between 1994 and 2004, he was also an active writer for the magazine Computer Shopper and was responsible for its monthly Linux column. He stopped writing for the magazine to devote more time to novels. However, he continues to publish freelance articles on the Internet.

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Meera Syal

Feroza Syal
First Name Meera
Born on June 27, 1961 (age 65)

Meera Syal FRSL is an English comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress. She rose to prominence as one of the team that created Goodness Gracious Me and portraying Sanjeev's grandmother, Ummi, in The Kumars at No. 42. She became one of the UK's best-known Asian personalities.

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John E. Walker

John Ernest Walker
First Name John
Last Name Walker
Born on January 7, 1941 (age 85)

Sir John Ernest Walker is a British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1997. As of 2015 Walker is Emeritus Director and Professor at the MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit in Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

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Andrew Strominger

First Name Andrew
Last Name Strominger
Born on July 30, 1955 (age 71)

Andrew Eben Strominger is an American theoretical physicist who is the director of Harvard's Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature. He has made significant contributions to quantum gravity and string theory. These include his work on Calabi–Yau compactification and topology change in string theory, and on the stringy origin of black hole entropy. He is a senior fellow at the Society of Fellows, and is the Gwill E. York Professor of Physics.

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Clare Short

First Name Clare
Last Name Short
Born on February 15, 1946 (age 80)

Clare Short is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for International Development under Prime Minister Tony Blair from 1997 to 2003.

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Augustus Orlebar

First Name Augustus
Last Name Orlebar
Born on February 17, 1897
Died on August 4, 1943 (aged 46)

Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar, was a British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars.

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Richard Roberts

Richard John Roberts
First Name Richard
Last Name Roberts
Born on September 6, 1943 (age 83)

Sir Richard John Roberts is a British biochemist and molecular biologist. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing. He currently works at New England Biolabs.

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Michael Korda

First Name Michael
Last Name Korda
Born on October 8, 1933 (age 93)

Michael Korda is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

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John Negroponte

First Name John
Last Name Negroponte
Born on July 21, 1939 (age 87)

John Dimitri Negroponte is an American diplomat. He is currently a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to this appointment, he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, United States Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009), and the first ever Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007).

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