List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Thérèse Coffey
Thérèse Anne Coffey is a senior British politician serving as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, Coffey has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Suffolk Coastal since 2010. She retained her seat at the 2015, 2017 and 2019 general elections.
Louis Spencer, Viscount Althorp
Louis Frederick John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, is a British aristocrat who is a member of the Spencer family.
Wizard of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand is a New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician. He is also known by his shorter name, The Wizard.
Bill Oddie
William Edgar Oddie is an English writer, comedian, composer, musician, artist, birder, conservationist, television presenter and actor. He was a member of comedy trio The Goodies.
Derek Draper
Derek William Draper is an English former lobbyist. As a political advisor he was involved in two political scandals, "Lobbygate" in 1998, and again in 2009 while Draper was editor of the LabourList website. He has worked as a psychotherapist.
Zak Zodiac
Zak Bevis is an English professional wrestler. He mainly competes under the name Zak Zodiac in World Association of Wrestling, which is owned and operated by his family. He also regularly leads training for his family's wrestling school and has done seminars for other companies.
Paul Daley
Paul Anthony Daley is an English professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer. A professional competitor since 2003, Daley has formerly competed for the UFC, Bellator MMA, Cage Rage, Final Fight Championship, Strikeforce, EliteXC, ShoXC, BAMMA, Cage Warriors, Cage Contender, Shark Fights, Pancrase, and Impact FC. Daley is a former Cage Rage World Welterweight Champion and Cage Rage British Welterweight Champion.
David Coverdale
David Coverdale is an English rock singer-songwriter best known for his work with Whitesnake, a hard rock band he founded in 1978. Before Whitesnake, Coverdale was the lead singer of Deep Purple from 1973 to 1976, after which he established his solo career. A collaboration with Jimmy Page resulted in a 1993 album that was certified Platinum. In 2016, Coverdale was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Deep Purple, giving one of the band's induction speeches. Coverdale is known in particular for his powerful blues-tinged voice.
Daniel Goodfellow
Daniel Goodfellow is a British diver and an Olympic bronze medalist. He first represented Great Britain as a senior at the 2013 European Diving Championships in the 10 m platform event and the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in the same event. Goodfellow won a bronze medal in the Men's 10m Synchronised Platform event with his diving partner Tom Daley at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He has also won a gold with Daley in the same event at the Commonwealth Games, and a silver at the European Championships.
Paul Whitehouse
Paul Julian Whitehouse is a British actor, writer and comedian. He was one of the main stars of the BBC sketch comedy series The Fast Show, and has also starred with Harry Enfield in the shows Harry & Paul and Harry Enfield & Chums. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was in the top 50 comedy acts voted for by comedians and comedy insiders.