List of Famous people born in Harlow, United Kingdom
Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer, fashion designer and television personality. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as a member of the girl group the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Posh Spice. With over 85 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-selling female group of all time. After the Spice Girls split in 2001, Beckham was signed to Virgin Records, in which she released her self-titled debut solo album, which produced two UK Top 10 singles.
Davood Ghadami
Davood Ghadami is an English actor, known for his role as Kush Kazemi in the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2014 to 2021.
Rik Mayall
Richard Michael Mayall was an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. Mayall formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s.
SuRie
Susanna Marie Cork, better known as SuRie, is an English singer and songwriter. She was born in Harlow, Essex and raised in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
Carl Jenkinson
Carl Daniel Jenkinson is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Championship club Nottingham Forest.
Danny Walters
Danny Walters is an English actor, known for his roles as Tiger Dyke in the ITV sitcom Benidorm and Keanu Taylor in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Hannah Fry
Hannah Fry is a mathematician, author, lecturer, radio and television presenter, podcaster and public speaker. She studies the patterns of human behaviour, such as interpersonal relationships and dating, and how mathematics can apply to them. Fry delivered the 2019 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
Laura Kenny
Laura Rebecca Kenny, is an English track and road cyclist who specialises in the team pursuit, omnium, scratch race and madison disciplines.
Gary Hooper
Gary Hooper is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Kerala Blasters FC in the Indian Super League.
Nick Kamen
Ivor Neville "Nick" Kamen is an English male model, songwriter and musician. He is best known for the singles "Each Time You Break My Heart" from 1986 and "I Promised Myself" from 1990. In a 1985 Levi commercial he took off his blue jean '501s' and white T-shirt in a launderette.