List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Will Sharpe
William Tomomori Fukuda Sharpe is a Japanese-English actor, writer, and director.
Paul Nuttall
Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England between 2009 and 2019, sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate. He was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from November 2016 to June 2017. He left UKIP in December 2018, criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson, and joined The Brexit Party in 2019.
James McCarthy
James Patrick McCarthy is a professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the Irish national team.
Arnold Allen
Arnold Billy Allen is an English mixed martial artist who competes in the Featherweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of December 13, 2021, he is #7 in the UFC featherweight rankings.
Jack Butland
Jack Butland is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Crystal Palace and the England national team.
Toni Duggan
Toni Duggan is an English footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Spanish Primera División club Atlético Madrid and the England national team. She has previously played in England for Everton and Manchester City, and in Spain for Barcelona.
Annie Nightingale
Annie Avril Nightingale is an English radio and television broadcaster. She was the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1 in 1970, and is its longest-serving presenter.
Liberty Ross
Liberty Lettice Lark Ross is an English model and actress. She has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, and Dazed & Confused. She played the role of Queen Eleanor in the 2012 fantasy film Snow White and the Huntsman, directed by her then-husband, Rupert Sanders. She is the sister of composers Atticus and Leopold Ross.
Helen Fielding
Helen Fielding is an English novelist and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones, and a sequence of novels and films beginning with the life of a thirty something singleton in London trying to make sense of life and love. Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999) were published in 40 countries and sold more than 15 million copies. The two films of the same name achieved international success. In a survey conducted by The Guardian newspaper, Bridget Jones’s Diary was named as one of the ten novels that best defined the 20th century.
Ronald Pickup
Ronald Alfred Pickup was an English actor. He was active in television and film from 1964 to 2021.