List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Amy Dowden

First Name Amy
Last Name Dowden
Born on August 10, 1991 (age 34)

Amy Dowden is a ballroom and Latin American dancer from Wales. Dowden and her dancing partner Ben Jones are former British National Champions in Latin American Dance. Dowden was a finalist in the seventeenth series of Strictly Come Dancing with Karim Zeroual in 2019.

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Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull
First Name Marianne
Born on December 29, 1946 (age 79)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull is an English singer, songwriter, and actress. She achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her hit single "As Tears Go By" and became one of the lead female artists during the British Invasion in the United States.

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Raymond Briggs

First Name Raymond
Last Name Briggs
Born on January 18, 1934
Died on August 9, 2022 (aged 88)

Raymond Redvers Briggs, CBE is an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author who has achieved critical and popular success among adults and children. He is best known in Britain for his story The Snowman, a book without words whose cartoon adaptation is televised and whose musical adaptation is staged every Christmas.

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Nadiya Hussain

First Name Nadiya
Born on December 25, 1984 (age 41)
Height 152 cm | 5'0

Nadiya Jamir Hussain is a British TV chef, author and television presenter. She rose to fame after winning the sixth series of BBC's The Great British Bake Off in 2015. Since winning, she has signed contracts with the BBC to host the documentary The Chronicles of Nadiya, TV cookery series, Nadiya's British Food Adventure and Nadiya's Family Favourites, co-presented The Big Family Cooking Showdown and has become a regular contributor on The One Show.

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Callum Wilson

Callum Eddie Graham Wilson
First Name Callum
Born on February 27, 1992 (age 34)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Callum Eddie Graham Wilson is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Newcastle United and the England national team.

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Craig Ferguson

First Name Craig
Last Name Ferguson
Born on May 17, 1962 (age 63)
Height 187 cm | 6'2

Craig Ferguson is a Scottish-American television host, comedian, author, and actor, best known for hosting the CBS late-night talk show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–14), for which he won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with South African archbishop Desmond Tutu that year. He also hosted the syndicated game show Celebrity Name Game (2014–17), for which he won two Daytime Emmy Awards, and Join or Die with Craig Ferguson (2016) on History. In 2017 he released a 6-episode web show with his wife Megan, titled Couple Thinkers.

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Kim Darroch

First Name Kim
Last Name Darroch
Born on April 30, 1954 (age 72)

Nigel Kim Darroch, Baron Darroch of Kew, is a former British diplomat. He served as the British Ambassador to the United States between January 2016 and December 2019, and previously as National Security Adviser and UK Permanent Representative to the European Union.

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Shirley Henderson

First Name Shirley
Last Name Henderson
Born on November 24, 1965 (age 60)
Height 153 cm | 5'0

Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. Her film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996), Jude in the three Bridget Jones films (2001), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other films include Topsy-Turvy (1999), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Frozen (2005), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), and the Netflix film Okja (2017).

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John Fashanu

First Name John
Last Name Fashanu
Born on September 18, 1962 (age 63)

John Fashanu is a British television presenter and former professional footballer. In his former career, he was a powerful centre-forward from 1978 until 1995, most notably in an eight-year spell at Wimbledon F.C. in which he won the FA Cup in 1988 and scored over 100 goals in all competitions. He was also capped twice at senior level by England.

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Bob McCarron

First Name Bob
Last Name McCarron
Born on January 28, 1950 (age 76)

Robert "Bob" McCarron is an Australian medic and special effects prosthetic makeup artist who has worked on many international movies and television shows. He is most recognisable from his on-screen appearances as "Medic Bob", in the UK series of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and as "Dr. Bob", in the German version, Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!.

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