List of Famous people born in Nottingham, United Kingdom

Lennie Michael James is a British actor, screenwriter, and playwright. He is best known for playing Detective Chief Inspector (DCI) Tony Gates in Line of Duty, Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, and has appeared in many films including Snatch (2000) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

Andrew Alexander Cole is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. His professional career lasted from 1988 to 2008, and is mostly remembered for his time with Manchester United, who paid a British record transfer fee to sign him from Newcastle United. Cole spent six years with Manchester United and won eight major trophies, including the Treble of the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League in 1999.

Daniel Mark Hardy is an English former mixed martial artist who fought in the welterweight division. During his professional MMA career, which began in 2004, Hardy fought in multiple promotions, such as Cage Force and Cage Warriors, before signing a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 2008. In 2010 he fought Georges St-Pierre for the UFC Welterweight Championship, but lost the bout via decision. He is currently an analyst and colour commentator for the UFC.

Rebecca "Becky" Downie is a British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She is a double European champion and 2014 Commonwealth Games champion on the uneven bars as well as the 2019 World silver medallist.

Sir Edward Jonathan Davey is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2019. A member of the Liberal Democrats, Davey previously served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2016 and Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson from 2019 to 2020. An "Orange Book" liberal, Davey has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since 2017, and previously from 1997 to 2015.

Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. Along with Thomas Cromwell, he supported the principle of royal supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm.

Peter Thomas Taylor was an English football player and manager. A goalkeeper with a modest playing career, he went on to work in management alongside Brian Clough at Derby County and Nottingham Forest, winning the Football League with both clubs and the European Cup twice with Nottingham Forest.

Michael Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist. He is currently a professor of chemistry and director of both the Institute for Materials Research and the Materials Science and Engineering program at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He also serves as director of the Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES) of the U.S. Department of Energy at Binghamton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019 alongside Akira Yoshino and John B. Goodenough.

Barry Frederick Howard was an English actor. He was best known for his role as Barry Stuart-Hargreaves in the first seven series of the long-running BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, in which his deadpan comedy style and classic facial expressions made him a popular character.

Mark Ian Hoyle, commonly known by his Internet pseudonym LadBaby, is a British graphic designer, lifestyle blogger, and YouTuber from Nottingham, England. His video content focuses on his experiences as a father, and is filmed with his wife, Roxanne. The couple had the Christmas number one on the UK Singles Chart in 2018, 2019 and 2020 with the novelty songs "We Built This City", "I Love Sausage Rolls" and "Don't Stop Me Eatin'" respectively. This made them only the third act to secure three consecutive Christmas number ones, following The Beatles and the Spice Girls.