List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Sir Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, FRSL, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer. He has illustrated over 300 books, including 18 written by Roald Dahl, which are among his most popular works. For his lasting contribution as a children's illustrator he won the biennial international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. From 1999 to 2001 he was the inaugural British Children's Laureate. He is a patron of the Association of Illustrators.

Samantha Brown is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer.

Robert Damian Ellis is a producer, arranger, instrumentalist and composer. He is best known for his work with PJ Harvey, with whom he has been most closely associated as producer, arranger and musician since 1990. His own compositional work, which could be described as being something akin to contemporary “classical” music, has been released on six recordings, three under the name "Spleen" and three under his own name "Music for the home " (2000) and "Music for the home - Volume 2" (2004) for The Leaf Label, and "The Nostalgia Machine" for KPM. He has also worked as producer/arranger and musician for such diverse artists as Marianne Faithfull, Robyn Hitchcock, ex-Ash guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, Madrugada, Laika, Swell, Placebo, ex-Tricky singer Martina Topley-Bird, Scott Walker & Ute Lemper, Cold Specks and most recently Anna Calvi, Bat for Lashes, Torres, deux furieuses and The Blinders.

Ami Canaan Mann is a British-born American film director, television director and television writer.

Amanda Root is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programmes.

John Joseph Sheridan is an Irish former football player and current manager who manages Swindon Town.

Thomas (Tom) Cavalier-Smith, FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, was a Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford.

Michael James Duff FRS, FRSA is a British theoretical physicist and pioneering theorist of supergravity who is the Principal of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Abdus Salam Chair of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.

Remi Adefarasin, BSC, is an English cinematographer. He is educated in Photography & Filmmaking at Harrow Technical College. He started his career as a camera trainee at BBC-TV's Ealing Studios. His work on Elizabeth (1998) won him awards for Best Cinematography from BAFTA and the British Society of Cinematographers, as well as a "Golden Frog" from Camerimage and an Academy Award nomination. For his work on Elizabeth, he became the first black person to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Ayalah Deborah Bentovim, better known by her stage name Sister Bliss, is a British keyboardist, record producer, DJ and songwriter. In the studio, she is best known for her work with Rollo Armstrong as one half of the production duo Rollo & Sister Bliss, and particularly as part of Faithless. In 1996, she teamed up with Faithless bandmate Rollo to successfully remix Moby's recording of "That's When I Reach for My Revolver". Moby was so pleased they were asked to remix another song – "Honey".