List of Famous people born in England, United Kingdom
Paul Robinson
Paul Robinson is a British former figure skater who competed in men's singles. He is a two-time British national champion and competed at two Winter Olympics, placing 22nd in 1984 and 18th in 1988. In 1988, he achieved his career-best result at the European Championships, ninth, and at the World Championships, 15th. He retired from competition in 1988 and became a skating coach.
Paul Weiland
Paul Weiland OBE is an English motion picture and television director, writer and producer. Weiland is a director and producer of television commercials in the UK, having made over 500 commercials, including a popular and long-running series for Walkers crisps. He has also directed several British television series, including Alas Smith and Jones (1989–1992) and Mr. Bean (1991–1992). His feature film credits include Made of Honor (2008), Sixty Six (2006), Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999), Roseanna's Grave (1997), City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) and Leonard Part 6 (1987).
Josh Dubovie
Josh James Dubovie is a British singer. Dubovie is most notable for having represented the UK at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Oslo, Norway, in May 2010, after winning the UK national selection competition with "That Sounds Good to Me", a song by Mike Stock, Pete Waterman and Steve Crosby.
Jamie Donoughue
Jamie Donoughue is an Oscar® nominated British film director, producer and writer. Known for directing short-film Shok that earned him critical praise and multiple international awards including an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination at the 88th Academy Awards. In 2016 he went onto direct two episodes of the BBC / Netflix drama The Last Kingdom. This was followed by a new Netflix original series entitled The Innocents and the series finale of ITV's Endeavour.
Vera Baird
Vera Baird is a British barrister. She is the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales.
Paul Colman
Paul Colman is a British-Australian pop-rock guitarist, vocalist, pianist, and composer. He has made a name for himself as a Christian musician independently, with his band the Paul Colman Trio, as a solo artist, and as part of the Newsboys. His songwriting abilities have been acknowledged with a Grammy nomination and Dove Awards.
Tony Lloyd
Anthony Joseph Lloyd is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for three constituencies, currently as the MP for Rochdale since 2017. He was MP for Stretford from 1983 and 1997 and MP for Manchester Central from 1997 to 2012. He then became Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner between 2012 and 2017, and interim Mayor of Greater Manchester between 2015 and 2017. Lloyd served as Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 2018 and 2020, resigning as Shadow Secretary of State on 28 April 2020, to recover from his illness of COVID-19. He was replaced by Louise Haigh.
Peter Luff
Sir Peter James Luff is Chair of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Formerly a British Conservative Party politician, he was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Worcestershire from 1997 to 2015 and for Worcester from 1992 until 1997. He was a Defence Minister from 2010 to 2012.
Shabana Mahmood
Shabana Mahmood is a British Labour Party politician and barrister, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham, Ladywood since the May 2010 general election.
John Mann
John Mann, Baron Mann is a British Independent politician who serves as an advisor to the Government on Antisemitism, sitting as a Member of the House of Lords. Prior to being granted a peerage, he was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bassetlaw from the 2001 general election until 28 October 2019.