List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom

Jim O'Neill

First Name Jim
Last Name O'Neill
Born on March 17, 1957 (age 69)

Terence James O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley is a British economist best known for coining BRICs, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the four rapidly developing countries that have come to symbolise the shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies. He is also a former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Conservative government minister. As of January 2014, he is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Commercial Secretary to the Treasury in the Second Cameron Ministry, a position he held until his resignation on 23 September 2016. Since 2008, he has written monthly columns for international media organization Project Syndicate. He is the current chairman of the Council of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

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James Morris-Cotterill

First Name James
Last Name Morris-Cotterill
Born on July 4, 1985 (age 41)
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Joby Talbot

First Name Joby
Born on August 25, 1971 (age 54)

Joby Talbot is a British composer. He has written for a wide variety of purposes and an accordingly broad range of styles, including instrumental and vocal concert music, film and television scores, pop arrangements and works for dance. He is therefore known to sometimes disparate audiences for quite different works.

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Joe Fry

First Name Joe
Last Name Fry
Born on October 26, 1915
Died on July 29, 1950 (aged 34)

Joseph Gibson Fry was a British racing driver and distant member of the Fry's Chocolate family. He became the primary driver for the highly successful Shelsley Special "Freikaiserwagen", created by his cousin David Fry and Hugh Dunsterville, with help from Dick Caesar. The original car was built in Bristol in 1936 and featured an Anzani engine which was replaced in 1937 by a Blackburne engine. Joe set a number of hill records during the late 1930s including an unofficial outright record at Prescott when he climbed in 47.62 seconds in the 1,100 c.c. Freikaiserwagen, on 27 August 1938. At the outbreak of World War Two he held both the blown and unblown 1,100 c.c. records at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in 41.52 and 42.58 seconds respectively.

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Dan Gillespie Sells

First Name Dan
Last Name Sells
Born on September 20, 1978 (age 47)

Daniel Giles Gillespie Sells is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known as being the lead vocalist and frontman for the rock group The Feeling.

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Maggie Leung Hoi Ning

First Name Maggie
Born on July 22, 1992 (age 34)
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Julia Reid

First Name Julia
Last Name Reid
Born on July 16, 1952 (age 74)

Julia Reid is a British politician and a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South West England region.

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Stephen Platten

First Name Stephen
Last Name Platten
Born on May 17, 1947 (age 79)

Stephen George Platten, FSA is a retired Anglican bishop. He was the last diocesan Bishop of Wakefield in the Church of England. He was consecrated in this role on 19 July 2003 and immediately prior to that was Dean of Norwich from 1995. He was installed at Wakefield Cathedral on 19 July 2003.

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Daniel Lupi

First Name Daniel
Last Name Lupi
Born on January 1, 1961 (age 65)

Daniel Lupi is an English film producer. He collaborated with Paul Thomas Anderson on each of his films.

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John O'Farrell

First Name John
Last Name O'Farrell
Born on March 27, 1962 (age 64)

John O'Farrell is a British author, scriptwriter and political campaigner. Previously a lead writer for such shows as Spitting Image and Have I Got News for You, he is now best known as a comic author for such books such as The Man Who Forgot His Wife and An Utterly Impartial History of Britain. He is one of a small number of British writers to have achieved best-seller status with both fiction and non-fiction. He has also published three collections of his weekly column for The Guardian and set up Britain's first daily satirical news website NewsBiscuit. With comedian Angela Barnes, he co-hosts the light-hearted historical podcast 'We Are History'.

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