List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

George Philip North is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays for the Ospreys in the Pro14 and the Wales national team. He has also represented the British and Irish Lions and currently has the most tries in international rugby for an active player. His usual position is wing, but he has also played at outside centre. North is the second highest all time try scorer for Wales behind Shane Williams.

Michael Terence Aspel is an English retired television presenter on programmes such as Crackerjack, Aspel & Company, Give Us a Clue, This is Your Life, Strange but True? and Antiques Roadshow.

James Warren "Jimmy" White, is an English senior snooker player who has won 3 seniors World titles, and is the reigning champion. Nicknamed "The Whirlwind" because of his fluid, attacking style of play and popularly referred to as the "People's Champion", White is the 1980 World Amateur Champion, 2009 Six-red World champion, 3 time World Seniors Champion, 2019 Seniors 6-Red World Champion and 1984 World Doubles champion with Alex Higgins.

David Essex is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. Since the 1970s, he has attained 19 Top 40 singles in the UK and 16 Top 40 albums. Internationally, Essex had the most success with his 1973 single "Rock On". He has also had an extensive career as an actor.

Dean Bradley Henderson is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.

Amanda Louise Smith is an English former pop singer and model. She became famous as a teenager in the 1980s due to her romantic relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, who was 34 years her senior.

Emma Thomas Nolan is an English film producer, known for frequent collaborations with her husband, filmmaker Christopher Nolan. Her producing credits include: The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005–2012), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017), and Tenet (2020). Inception and Dunkirk were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Nick Blackwell is a British former professional boxer who was born in Trowbridge and was taught at the John of gaunt school, he competed from 2009 to 2016. He won the English middleweight title in 2010, at the age of twenty, becoming the youngest boxer to do so. In 2011 and 2012 he challenged for the Commonwealth middleweight title, and won the British middleweight title in 2015. Blackwell's career was cut short in 2016 after he was forced to retire due to a serious head injury sustained in the ring.

Gordon Angus Deayton is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game Have I Got News for You, a job from which he was dismissed in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid allegations about his personal life. He was also the host of British panel show Would I Lie to You? from 2007 to 2008.

Simon Yates is an English mountaineer. He has described himself as 'an adventurer'. Yates is most well known as being one of two British mountaineers that conquered the previously unclimbed West Face of Siula Grande in the Huayhuash mountain range in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. He and Joe Simpson completed the difficult climb, at times enduring extreme weather conditions. They subsequently survived a dramatic series of events on the descent. Simpson recounted the story in the book Touching the Void, which was later adapted into a film.