List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Christine Ohuruogu

First Name Christine
Last Name Ohuruogu
Born on May 17, 1984 (age 41)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu, MBE is a British track and field athlete who specialises in the 400 metres, the event for which she is a former Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion. The Olympic champion in 2008, and silver medalist in 2012, she is a double World Champion, having won the 400 m at the 2007 and 2013 World Championships. She has also won six World championship medals in the women's 4 x 400m relay as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team and bronze Olympic medals with the women's 4 x 400m relay at the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2016 Rio Games, her final Olympics. Ohuruogu shares with Merlene Ottey and Usain Bolt the record for medalling in most successive global championships - 9 between the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Kano

Kane Brett Robinson
Born on May 21, 1985 (age 40)

Kane Brett Robinson, better known as Kano, is a British rapper, songwriter and actor from East Ham, London. A significant contributor to grime music, Kano is widely considered one of the pioneers of grime music and culture, alongside artists such as Wiley and Dizzee Rascal. In 2004, Kano released his debut single "Ps and Qs", which was an underground hit within the grime community.

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Andy Lee

First Name Andy
Last Name Lee
Born on June 11, 1984 (age 41)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

Andy Lee is an Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2017. He held the WBO middleweight title from 2014 to 2015, and in doing so became the first member of the travelling community to win a major world title. He is the second cousin of heavyweight champion Tyson Fury. During his professional career, Lee was trained by the late Emmanuel Steward.

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Kimberley Nixon

First Name Kimberley
Last Name Nixon
Born on September 24, 1985 (age 40)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Kimberley Nixon is a Welsh actress. Nixon is known for her role as Sophy Hutton in the BBC One period drama Cranford and various films such as Wild Child and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. More recently she has starred as Josie Jones in the Channel 4 comedy-drama Fresh Meat and as Sarah Pearson in the BBC Two comedy Hebburn.

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George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews

First Name George
Last Name Andrews
Born on June 26, 1962 (age 63)

George Philip Nicholas Windsor, Earl of St Andrews is the elder son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and his wife, Katharine, Duchess of Kent. He is styled Earl of St Andrews, one of his father's subsidiary titles, which he holds by courtesy as heir apparent to the Dukedom of Kent.

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Douglas Murray

First Name Douglas
Last Name Murray
Born on July 16, 1979 (age 46)

Douglas Kear Murray is a British author and political commentator. He founded the Centre for Social Cohesion in 2007, which became part of the Henry Jackson Society, where he was associate director from 2011 to 2018. He is also an associate editor of the conservative-leaning British political and cultural magazine The Spectator.

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Sophie McShera

First Name Sophie
Last Name McShera
Born on January 1, 1985 (age 41)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Sophie McShera is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Ros McCain in the fifth series of the BBC television series Waterloo Road, as Daisy Mason in the ITV television series Downton Abbey, and as Drizella Tremaine in the 2015 Disney film Cinderella.

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Kate Adie

First Name Kate
Last Name Adie
Born on September 19, 1945 (age 80)

Kathryn Adie is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.

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John Motson

First Name John
Last Name Motson
Born on July 10, 1945 (age 80)

John Walker Motson, OBE, also known as Motty, is an English football commentator. Beginning as a television commentator with the BBC in 1971, he has commentated on over 2000 games on television and radio. From the late 1970s to 2008, Motson was the dominant football commentary figure at the BBC, apart from a brief spell in the 1990s, when his friend and rival Barry Davies was selected for two FA Cup final commentaries, the 1994 World Cup final and the UEFA Euro 1996 semi-final between England and Germany.

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John Alderton

First Name John
Last Name Alderton
Born on November 27, 1940 (age 85)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

John Alderton is an English actor who is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs, Thomas & Sarah, Wodehouse Playhouse, Little Miss, Please Sir! and Fireman Sam. Alderton has often starred alongside his wife, Pauline Collins.

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