List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Martin Hollis
Martin Hollis is a British video game designer best known for directing and producing the critically acclaimed Nintendo 64 first-person shooter GoldenEye 007. In 2000, he founded Zoonami, a video game development company based in Cambridge.
Peter Hacker
Peter Michael Stephan Hacker is a British philosopher. His principal expertise is in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophical anthropology. He is known for his detailed exegesis and interpretation of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, his critique of cognitive neuroscience, and for his comprehensive studies of human nature.
Roger Pratt
Roger Pratt BSC is a British cinematographer. Pratt has been the director of photography for more than 35 films, including Batman (1989), Frankenstein (1994), 102 Dalmatians (2000), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Troy (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Inkheart (2008) and The Karate Kid (2010). He is a frequent collaborator of directors Terry Gilliam, Roger Christian, and Richard Attenborough.
Sean Cronin
Sean Cronin is an English actor and director. Cronin is best known for playing villains. He is of Italian and Spanish descent.
James Purnell
James Mark Dakin Purnell is a British broadcasting executive and former Labour Party politician who served as Work and Pensions Secretary and Culture Secretary in the Brown Government from 2007 to 2009. In October 2016, he became BBC's Director of Radio, in addition to his other role as the BBC's Director of Strategy and Digital, a job he has held since March 2013. In 2020 he left the BBC to become vice-chancellor of University of the Arts London.
Richard Strange
Richard "Kid" Strange is an English writer, actor, musician, curator, teacher, adventurer and the founder and front man of seminal mid-1970s protopunk art rock band Doctors of Madness.
Graham Turner
Graham John Turner is an English former footballer who became a manager. His son Mark was also a professional footballer.
Peter Chelsom
Peter Chelsom is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as Hector and the Search for Happiness, Serendipity, and Shall We Dance? Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academy, the American Academy, The Directors Guild of America, and The Writers Guild of America.
Dave McKean
David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art and sculpture. McKean's projects include illustrating books by amongst others Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Heston Blumenthal, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, and directing three feature films.
John Gummer
John Selwyn Gummer, Baron Deben is a British Conservative Party politician, formerly Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal and now a member of the House of Lords. He was Conservative Party Chairman from 1983 to 1985 and held various government posts including Secretary of State for the Environment from 1993 to 1997.