List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Ricky Walden
Ricky Walden is an English professional snooker player from Chester.
Ariyon Bakare
Ariyon Bakare is an English actor. He has appeared in the BBC soap opera Doctors (2001–2005), the Prime series Good Omens, Carnival Row (2019), and the BBC series His Dark Materials. Prior to this, Bakare made appearances on British dramas such as The Bill, Casualty, and Holby City.
Geoffrey Robinson
Geoffrey Robinson is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North West for 43 years, from 1976 to 2019. He was Paymaster General from May 1997 to December 1998, resigning after it was revealed that he had lent his government colleague Peter Mandelson £373,000 to buy a house. From 1996 to 2008 he was the owner of the New Statesman, a centre-left weekly political magazine.
Ash Taylor
Ashton John Taylor is a footballer and a former Wales under-21 squad member, who plays as a defender for Aberdeen. He began his career with Tranmere Rovers, and during his time there had a loan spell at Colwyn Bay. He later played for Scottish club Aberdeen before moving to English club Northampton Town for two years, after which he re-signed for Aberdeen.
Debbie Googe
Deborah Ann Googe is an English musician, best known as bassist for the band My Bloody Valentine. She has also worked with Snowpony, Primal Scream and Thurston Moore.
Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Lynn is an English stage and film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is known for directing comedy films such as Clue (1985), Nuns on the Run (1990), My Cousin Vinny (1992) and The Whole Nine Yards (2000). He co-created and co-wrote the television series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister (1986–1988).
Ashley Taylor Dawson
Philip Ashley Taylor Dawson, known as Ashley Taylor Dawson, is an English actor and singer. He is known for portraying the role of Darren Osborne in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, as well as being a member of the pop group allSTARS*.
Michael Platt
Michael Edward Platt is a British billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder and managing director of BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe's third-largest hedge-fund firm which he co-founded in 2000.
Desmond Askew
Desmond Askew is an English actor of film and television. In 1983 he had the lead role of 'naughty schoolboy' in the promo video of the Wham! single "Bad Boys". He has appeared in films such as Go (1999), Repli-Kate (2002), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Turistas (2006). He has appeared in episodic television on series such as Grange Hill, Las Vegas, Charmed, the short-lived Then Came You, as the recurring character Brody Davis on Roswell, and perhaps most famously as the titular adaptation of the 1987 children's series Simon and the Witch. He also voiced many minor characters in the 2009 video game Dragon Age Origins. He has recently voiced as CIA Nerd in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.