List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Bez

Born on April 18, 1964 (age 62)

Mark Berry, better known as Bez, is an English percussionist, dancer, and media personality. He is best known as a member of the rock bands Happy Mondays and Black Grape.

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Sheku Kanneh-Mason

First Name Sheku
Born on November 30, 1998 (age 27)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason is a British cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician award. He was the first Black musician to win the competition since its launch in 1978. He played at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018 under the direction of Christopher Warren-Green. Kanneh-Mason plays an Amati cello which was made in 1610.

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Ferne McCann

First Name Ferne
Last Name McCann
Born on August 6, 1990 (age 35)
Height 173 cm | 5'8

Ferne Alice McCann is an English model, television personality and presenter. She was a cast member of the ITVBe reality series The Only Way Is Essex, joining in the ninth series and leaving in the eighteenth. In 2015, she participated in the fifteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and finished in third place. In early 2016, she became a regular showbiz reporter on This Morning. Since 2017, McCann has starred in the ITVBe reality series Ferne McCann: First Time Mum.

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Drake Maverick

First Name Drake
Last Name Maverick
Born on January 30, 1983 (age 43)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

James Michael Curtin is a British professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE where he performs on NXT under the ring name Drake Maverick. He is best known for his tenure in Impact Wrestling, under the ring name Rockstar Spud.

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Mark Knopfler

Mark Freuder Knopfler
First Name Mark
Last Name Knopfler
Born on August 12, 1949 (age 76)

Mark Freuder Knopfler is a British singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He became known as the lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the rock band Dire Straits. He pursued a solo career after leaving the band in 1987. Dire Straits reunited in early 1991, but dissolved again in 1995. He is now an independent solo artist.

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Rhian Brewster

Rhian Joel Brewster
First Name Rhian
Born on April 1, 2000 (age 26)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Rhian Joel Brewster is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Sheffield United and the England national under-21 team. In 2017, he was part of the England squad which won the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup in India and was awarded the Golden Boot award for ending as the competition's leading goalscorer.

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Chuka Umunna

First Name Chuka
Born on October 17, 1978 (age 47)

Chuka Harrison Umunna is a British former politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Streatham from 2010 until 2019. A former member of the Labour Party, he was part of the Shadow Cabinet from 2011 to 2015. He left Labour in February 2019, when he resigned to form The Independent Group, later Change UK, along with six other MPs. Later in 2019, he left Change UK and, after a short time as an independent MP, joined the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 general election, he was unsuccessful in being re-elected as an MP and left the House of Commons.

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Kenneth Clarke

Kenneth Harry Clarke
First Name Kenneth
Born on July 2, 1940 (age 85)

Kenneth Harry Clarke, Baron Clarke of Nottingham,, often known as Ken Clarke, is a British politician who served as Home Secretary from 1992 to 1993 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rushcliffe from 1970 to 2019 and was Father of the House of Commons between 2017 and 2019. The President of the Tory Reform Group since 1997, he identifies with economically and socially liberal views.

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James Purefoy

James Brian Mark Purefoy
First Name James
Last Name Purefoy
Born on June 3, 1964 (age 61)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marc Antony in the HBO series Rome, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the series The Following, and Solomon Kane in the film of the same name. In February 2018 he starred as Laurens Bancroft in Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series.

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Jimmy Barnes

First Name Jimmy
Born on April 28, 1956 (age 70)

Jimmy Barnes is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer and songwriter. His career both as a solo performer and as the lead vocalist with the rock band Cold Chisel has made him one of the most popular and best-selling Australian music artists of all time. The combination of 14 Australian Top 40 albums for Cold Chisel and 13 charting solo albums, including 17 No. 1s, gives Barnes the highest number of hit albums of any Australian or International artist in the Australian market.

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