List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

John Sessions

John Gibb Marshall
First Name John
Last Name Sessions
Born on January 11, 1953
Died on November 2, 2020 (aged 67)

John Gibb Marshall, better known by the stage name John Sessions, was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.

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Karamono Dembele

Karamoko Kader Dembélé is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for Scottish Premiership club Celtic, and has been called up to represent both Scotland and England at youth level. He attracted media attention in October 2016 when he made his debut for Celtic's under-20 development team at the age of 13.

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Sacha Dhawan

First Name Sacha
Born on May 1, 1984 (age 41)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Sacha Dhawan is a British stage, screen and voice actor from Greater Manchester. He is best known for playing Akthar in the play The History Boys (2004–2006) and its film adaptation (2006), Paul Jatri in the BBC One comedy drama series Last Tango in Halifax (2012), Waris Hussein in the BBC Two docudrama film An Adventure in Space and Time (2013), Manish Prasad in the crime thriller Line of Duty (2014), Davos in Marvel's Iron Fist (2017–2018) and the current incarnation of the Master in the long-running BBC science fiction series Doctor Who.

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Laura Muir

First Name Laura
Last Name Muir
Born on May 9, 1993 (age 32)

Laura Muir is a British middle-distance runner. She specialises in the 800m, 1500m, 3000m and 5000m. She is the 2018 European champion in the 1500 metres, a two-time 2017 European Indoor champion, winning the 1500m/3000m double, a feat repeated in 2019, and a two-time 2018 World Indoor Championship medallist, with silver at 1500m and bronze at 3000m. Muir is a 2 time Diamond League champion in 1500 metres, winning in 2016 on the original points format, and again in 2018 when she won the Diamond League Final in the new championship format.

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Indira Varma

Indira Anne Varma
First Name Indira
Born on September 27, 1973 (age 52)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Indira Anne Varma is a British actress and narrator. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones. In September 2016, she began starring in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid, as DS Nina Suresh. She also stars in the new Amazon Prime series, Carnival Row.

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Justine Greening

First Name Justine
Last Name Greening
Born on April 30, 1969 (age 57)

Justine Greening is a British social activist and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Education from 2016 to 2018 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 2005 to 2019. While still a member of the Conservative Party, Greening had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and sat as an independent MP after that.

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Sair Khan

First Name Sair
Born on February 11, 1988 (age 38)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Sair Khan is an English actress, known for playing the role of Alya Nazir in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street since 2014. In 2018, she competed in the ITV reality series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.

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Ricky Whittle

First Name Ricky
Last Name Whittle
Born on December 31, 1981 (age 44)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Richard Whittle is an English actor. Whittle first came to prominence as a model for Reebok in the early 2000s. He is known in the United Kingdom for his role as Calvin Valentine in the British soap opera Hollyoaks. In 2009, he placed second in the BBC reality competition Strictly Come Dancing. In 2012, Whittle crossed over to American television when he booked a recurring role on VH-1's Single Ladies, followed by a recurring role on ABC's Mistresses in 2014. From 2014 to 2016, Whittle appeared in The CW's post-apocalyptic drama The 100 as Lincoln. As of 2017, Whittle appears in the lead role of Shadow Moon in the Starz television series American Gods.

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Sue Holderness

First Name Sue
Last Name Holderness
Born on May 28, 1949 (age 76)

Susan Joan Pringle Holderness is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Marlene Boyce in the British sitcom Only Fools and Horses from 1985 to 2003, and its spin-off The Green Green Grass from 2005 to 2009.

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Tao Geoghegan Hart

First Name Tao
Last Name Hart
Born on March 30, 1995 (age 31)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Tao Geoghegan Hart is a British cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers. He rode for Team Sky as a stagiaire in late 2015, and joined the team permanently for the 2017 season. He won the 2020 Giro d'Italia.

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