List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Fern Britton

First Name Fern
Last Name Britton
Born on July 17, 1957 (age 68)
Height 166 cm | 5'5

Fern Britton is an English television presenter and author. She co-presented Breakfast Time in the 1980s, coming to mainstream national attention when hosting cookery game show Ready Steady Cook between 1994 and 2000 on BBC One. She presented ITV's This Morning programme from 1999 to 2009. In 2012, she participated in Strictly Come Dancing, where she was paired with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev. Since 2010, she has also published a number of bestselling novels and books of short stories and non-fiction.

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Kate Richardson-Walsh

First Name Kate
Last Name Richardson-Walsh
Born on May 9, 1980 (age 45)
Height 171 cm | 5'7

Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh, is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 years.

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James D'Arcy

First Name James
Last Name D'Arcy
Born on August 24, 1975 (age 50)
Height 191 cm | 6'3

James D'Arcy is an English actor. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Agent Carter and the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second season of the ITV series Broadchurch. D'Arcy also co-starred as Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's war movie Dunkirk (2017).

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Eilish McColgan

First Name Eilish
Last Name McColgan
Born on November 25, 1990 (age 35)

Eilish McColgan is a British middle-distance athlete who competes in the 3000 metres steeplechase and 5000 metres. She represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio. She represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014 and in 2018 at the Gold Coast. She is the Scottish record holder in the 3000 metres steeplechase with 9:35.82 in 2013.

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Jessica Hynes

Tallulah Jessica Elina Stevenson
First Name Jessica
Last Name Hynes
Born on October 30, 1972 (age 53)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Tallulah Jessica Elina Hynes is an English actress, director and writer. Known professionally as Jessica Stevenson until 2007, she was one of the creators, writers and stars of the British sitcom Spaced and has worked as a writer and actress for over two decades.

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Elkie Brooks

Elaine Bookbinder
First Name Elkie
Born on February 25, 1945 (age 81)

Elkie Brooks is an English singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with "Pearl's a Singer", "Sunshine After the Rain" and the title track of the album No More the Fool. She has been nominated twice for Brit Awards.

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Jason Cummings

Jason Steven Cummings
First Name Jason
Last Name Cummings
Born on August 1, 1995 (age 30)

Jason Steven Cummings is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dundee.

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Chris Tarrant

First Name Chris
Last Name Tarrant
Born on October 10, 1946 (age 79)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Christopher John Tarrant, is an English radio and television broadcaster. He presented the ITV children's television show Tiswas from 1974 to 1981, and the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? from 1998 to 2014. He was a Capital Radio host from 1984 to 2004.

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Max Irons

First Name Max
Last Name Irons
Born on October 17, 1985 (age 40)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Maximilian Paul Diarmuid Irons is an English-Irish actor and model. He is known for his roles in Red Riding Hood (2011), his first leading role in Bitter Harvest, The White Queen (2013), The Host (2013), Woman in Gold (2014), The Riot Club (2014), and The Wife (2018). Irons also played the lead role of Joseph Turner in the spy thriller series Condor (2018-2020).

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Lee Sharpe

First Name Lee
Last Name Sharpe
Born on May 27, 1971 (age 54)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Lee Stuart Sharpe is an English former professional footballer, sports television pundit and reality television personality, who as a player was predominantly a left winger from 1988 to 2004.

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