List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Gary Kemp
Gary James Kemp is an English singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the New Romantic band Spandau Ballet.
Perdita Weeks
Perdita Rose Weeks is a British actress who currently plays Juliet Higgins in the CBS reboot series Magnum P.I.
David Seaman
David Andrew Seaman, MBE is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In a career lasting from 1981 to 2004, he is best known for his time playing for Arsenal. He won 75 caps for the England national football team, and is the country's second-most capped goalkeeper, after Peter Shilton. In 1997, he was awarded the MBE for services to football.
Jessica Plummer
Jessica Kate Plummer is an English actress and singer. From 2013 to 2015, she was a member of the British girl group Neon Jungle, with whom she released an album that peaked at number eight on the UK Albums Chart. From 2019 to 2020, she portrayed the role of Chantelle Atkins in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, where she became widely recognised for highlighting the issue of domestic violence alongside her on-screen husband, Gray Atkins.
Adam James
Adam James is an English television and stage actor.
Georgia Groome
Georgia Isobel Groome is an English actress. She is best known for her roles in London to Brighton (2006) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
Diane Abbott
Diane Julie Abbott is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987. A member of the Labour Party, she served in Jeremy Corbyn’s Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Home Secretary from 2016 to 2020. The first black woman elected to Parliament, she is also the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons.
Hamza Choudhury
Hamza Dewan Choudhury is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League Leicester City.
Ravel Morrison
Ravel Ryan Morrison is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Jamaica national team. Morrison, who is a free agent, most recently played for Eredivisie club ADO Den Haag.
Matthew Goode
Matthew William Goode is an English actor. He made his screen debut in 2002 with ABC's TV film feature Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. His breakthrough role was in the romantic comedy Chasing Liberty (2004), for which he received a nomination at Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star – Male. He then appeared in a string of supporting roles in films like Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), the German-British romantic comedy Imagine Me and You (2006), and the period drama Copying Beethoven (2006). He won praise for his performance as Charles Ryder in Julian Jarrold's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (2008), and as Ozymandias in the American neo-noir superhero film Watchmen (2009), based on DC Comics' limited series of the same name. He then starred in romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and Australian drama Burning Man (2011), the latter earning him a nomination for Best Actor at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.