List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Ana Boulter
Ana Boulter is a British television presenter. She attended the Minster School in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, then Nottingham Trent University, where she studied broadcast journalism. She presented on CBBC between 1998 and 2001, the BBC regional programme Inside Out, and briefly on Sky News in 2005–6.
Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe OBE is an English television and film director and producer, television dance competition judge, former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He was the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol and is the creator and executive producer of, and a regular judge on, So You Think You Can Dance. He also created the 2009 competition Superstars of Dance.
Andrew Solt
Andrew Solt is a British-born American producer, director, and writer of documentary films. Solt has had a long career in television. A frequent focus of his documentaries is rock and roll music, its history and star performers.
Peter Strickland
Peter Strickland is a British film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his films Berberian Sound Studio (2012), The Duke of Burgundy (2014) and In Fabric (2018).
Talvin Singh
Talvin Singh OBE is an English musician, producer, and composer. A tabla player, he is known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass. Singh is generally considered involved with an electronica subgenre called Asian Underground, and more recently as Indian and/or Asian electronica.
Donald Wolfit
Sir Donald Wolfit, CBE was an English actor-manager, known for his touring wartime productions of Shakespeare. He was especially renowned for his portrayal of King Lear.
Simon Archer
Simon David Archer MBE is an English former badminton player. Archer once held the world record for the fastest smash at 162 mph.
Drummond Money-Coutts
The Hon. Drummond William Thomas Money-Coutts, also known as DMC, is an English magician and specialist card shark, and the heir apparent to the Latymer Barony. His first professional performance came in 2000 while he was still at school, at the Royal Horticultural Society.
Minnie Weisz
Anna Alexandra "Minnie" Weisz is a British photographer and visual artist. She specialises in the camera obscura and adapts the technique to turn entire rooms into cameras.
Mary Austin
Mary Austin was born in 1951 in Fulham, London. She is well-known for her relationship with Freddie Mercury, who referred to her as his "common-law wife." Freddie Mercury is a culturpope icon, the lead vocalist of the British rock band Queen. Queen's record A Night at the Opera (1975) contains the Mercury-penned ballad “Love of My Life,” written for Austin.