List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Peter Patrick Lorimer is a Scottish former footballer, best known for his time with Leeds United and Scotland during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was an attacking midfielder, generally regarded as having one of the hardest shots in football. From 1984 to 1985 he was club captain of Leeds and holds the record as the club's youngest ever player and record goalscorer with 238 goals in all competitions. He has been voted as the ninth-greatest Leeds player of all time and voted into the Greatest Leeds United team of all time. After retiring as a player, Lorimer became a director on the board at Leeds, provided match commentary on BBC Radio Leeds and Yorkshire Radio, and has written a regular column in the Yorkshire Evening Post. Since April 2013 he has held the position of club ambassador.

James Joseph Tarbuck is an English comedian, singer, actor, entertainer and game show host.

Phillip James Lee is a British doctor and Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the Bracknell constituency from the 2010 general election to the 2019 dissolution of parliament. He stood unsuccessfully for the neighbouring Wokingham constituency in the 2019 general election.

Lauren Louise Price is a Welsh amateur boxer, and former kickboxer and footballer. She competed for Wales in the women's middleweight category at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a bronze medal. In doing so, she became the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal. Four years later she surpassed this achievement by winning gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in the Gold Coast, Australia.

Charlotte Mary Hawkins is an English television and radio presenter, newsreader and journalist.

Mostyn Neil Hamilton is a British politician, non-practising barrister and former teacher who is acting leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) since 2020. He is a Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales since 2016. He was previously a Conservative MP for the Tatton constituency from 1983 to 1997.

Jason Watkins is an English stage, film and television actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He has also played William Herrick in Being Human, Gavin Strong in Trollied, Simon Harwood in W1A, Gordon Shakespeare in the film series Nativity, and British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in Season 3 of The Crown.

Beverley Gail Allitt is an English serial child killer who was convicted of murdering four children, attempting to murder three other children, and causing grievous bodily harm to a further six. The crimes were committed over a period of 59 days from February to April 1991 in the children's ward at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire, where Allitt was employed as a State Enrolled Nurse. She is supposed to have administered large doses of insulin to at least two of her victims, and a large air bubble was found in the body of another, but police were unable to establish how all the attacks were carried out. In May 1993, at Nottingham Crown Court, she received thirteen life sentences for the crimes. Mr Justice Latham, sentencing, told Allitt that she was "a serious danger" to others and was unlikely ever to be considered safe enough to be released. She is detained at Rampton Secure Hospital in Nottinghamshire.

Simon Philip Yates is a British road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange. His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a professional cyclist. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España. Yates has also won multiple stages at each of cycling's three grand tours.

Sir George Iain Duncan Smith, often referred to by his initials IDS, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. He was previously Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2001 to 2003. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Chingford and Woodford Green, formerly Chingford, since 1992.