List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Francis Anthony Aylmer Maude, Baron Maude of Horsham is a British politician and life peer who served as Minister of State for Trade and Investment from 2015 to 2016, having previously served as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General from 2010 to 2015. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Horsham from 1997 to 2015. Having served over 25 years on the frontbench in the House of Commons, he now runs his own consultancy.

Dame Athene Margaret Donald is a British physicist. She is Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Cambridge, and Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.

Colin Lawrence is a TV and film actor who was born in London but brought up in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is of Jamaican descent.

Amelia Flanagan is an English actress, who has appeared as April Windsor in the ITV soap opera, Emmerdale since 2014.

Nigel Robert Haywood CVO is a British diplomat, who served as British ambassador to Estonia from 2003 until 2008 and Governor of the Falkland Islands from 2010 until 2014.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1969.

Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, taking over from Bill Bryson.

Michael O'Connor is an English costume designer.

John Poyner is a sound editor.