List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Alan Bowman

First Name Alan
Last Name Bowman
Born on May 23, 1944 (age 82)

Alan Keir Bowman, FBA, is a British classicist and academic. He is a former Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford.

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Steven Severin

Steven John Bailey
First Name Steven
Last Name Severin
Born on September 25, 1955 (age 70)

Steven Severin is an English musician, composer, producer and co-founding member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. He took the name "Severin" from the Leopold von Sacher-Masoch character who is mentioned in the Velvet Underground song "Venus in Furs". Severin had earlier considered "Steve Spunker" for his stage name. After the split of Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1996, Severin created his own label RE: and released several instrumental albums via his official website. In the late 2000s and the early 2010s, he regularly performed live in solo, playing music over footage of silent films.

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John R. Taylor

First Name John
Last Name Taylor
Born on February 2, 1939 (age 87)

John Robert Taylor is an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his B.A. in mathematics at Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963 with thesis advisor Geoffrey Chew. Taylor has written several college-level physics textbooks. His bestselling book is An Introduction to Error Analysis, which has been translated into nine languages. Taylor was designated a Presidential Teaching Scholar in 1991. He has also received an Emmy Award for his television series Physics 4 Fun (1988–1990).

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David Wise

First Name David
Last Name Wise
Born on September 13, 1967 (age 58)

David Wise is an English video game music composer and musician. He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series. Wise is known for his atmospheric style of music, mixing natural environmental sounds with prominent melodic and percussive accompaniment.

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Louis de Bernières

First Name Louis
Last Name Bernières
Born on December 8, 1954 (age 71)

Louis de Bernières is an English novelist. He is known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. It has been translated into over 11 languages and is an international best-seller.

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Charles Clarke

First Name Charles
Last Name Clarke

Charles Rodway Clarke is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Norwich South from 1997 until 2010, and served as Home Secretary from December 2004 until May 2006.

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Richard Friend

First Name Richard
Last Name Friend
Born on January 18, 1953 (age 73)

Sir Richard Henry Friend FRS FREng is a British physicist who is Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor at the National University of Singapore. Friend's research concerns the physics and engineering of carbon-based semiconductors. He also serves as Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore.

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Chips Keswick

First Name Chips
Born on February 2, 1940 (age 86)

Sir John Chippendale "Chips" Lindley Keswick is a British merchant banker and member of the Keswick family who control Jardine Matheson, founded by William Jardine. He was chairman of Arsenal Football Club from June 2013 until his retirement in May 2020.

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Sophie Dymoke

First Name Sophie
Last Name Dymoke
Born on November 30, 1981 (age 44)
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Roy Hattersley

First Name Roy
Last Name Hattersley

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL, is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for over 32 years from 1964 to 1997. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.

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