List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Harvey Elliott
Harvey Scott Elliott is an English footballer who plays as a winger for Championship club Blackburn Rovers.
Laurence Fox
Laurence Paul Fox is an English actor and political activist. He is best known for playing the supporting role of DS James Hathaway in the British TV drama series Lewis from 2006 to 2015. A member of the Robin Fox family, Fox attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and graduated in 2001. He first appeared in The Hole (2001), and has since appeared in numerous films, television features, and theatre productions. Fox is also a singer-songwriter and guitarist with his debut album, Holding Patterns, released in February 2016.
Sajid Javid
Sajid Javid is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 2018 to 2019 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2019 to 2020. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove since 2010. He was the first British Asian to hold one of the Great Offices of State in the UK.
Billy Idol
William Michael Albert Broad, known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor who holds dual British and American citizenship. He first achieved fame in the 1970s emerging from the London punk rock scene as the lead singer of a band called Generation X. Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol a lead artist during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in the United States. The name "Billy Idol" was inspired by a schoolteacher's description of him as "idle".
Dave Myers
David James Myers is an English television presenter, best known as one half of the Hairy Bikers, along with Si King. He is also known for his appearances on the BBC celebrity talent show Strictly Come Dancing. Together, Myers and King have presented a number of television cookery series for the BBC. They have also launched their own product called The Hairy Bikers Diet Club.
Patricia Allison
Patricia Allison is an English actress. She is known for her role as Ola Nyman in the Netflix comedy-drama series Sex Education.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber Kt is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were successful outside of their parent musicals, such as "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and "Memory" from Cats. In 2001, The New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". The Daily Telegraph ranked him the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" in 2008, with lyricist Don Black writing "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."
Minnie Driver
Amelia Fiona Jessica "Minnie" Driver is an English-American actress, singer and songwriter. For her role as Skylar in Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting, she was nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Her other films include Grosse Pointe Blank; The Phantom of the Opera; and her breakout role in 1995, Circle of Friends.
James Cracknell
James Edward Cracknell, is a British athlete, rowing champion and double Olympic gold medalist. He was married to TV and radio presenter Beverley Turner, together they have three children. Cracknell was appointed OBE for "services to sport" in the 2005 New Year Honours List.
Barry Ryan
Barry Ryan is an English former pop singer. He currently works as a photographer.