List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Owen Oyston

First Name Owen
Last Name Oyston
Born on March 24, 1934 (age 92)

Owen John Oyston is an English former businessman who was convicted of a sex offence, best known as the former majority owner of Blackpool Football Club. Oyston was convicted of rape and indecent assault of a 16-year-old girl in 1996. He served three years and six months of a six-year sentence in prison. He was released after a judicial review of the parole board's refusal to grant parole. On 25 February 2019 Oyston and his daughter, Natalie Christopher, were removed from the board of Blackpool Football Club.

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Adeel Akhtar

First Name Adeel
Born on September 18, 1980 (age 45)
Height 168 cm | 5'6

Adeel Akhtar is a British actor. In 2017, he won a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his role in Murdered by My Father.

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Kate French

First Name Kate
Last Name French
Born on November 2, 1991 (age 34)

Kate French is a British modern pentathlete who won the Gold Medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

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Ryan Burnett

First Name Ryan
Last Name Burnett
Born on May 21, 1992 (age 33)

Ryan Burnett is a Northern Irish former professional boxer who competed from 2013 to 2019. He is a former unified bantamweight world champion, having held the WBA (Unified) and IBF titles between 2017 and 2018. At regional level he held the British bantamweight title from 2015 to 2017. As an amateur, he represented Ireland at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and won a gold medal in the light-flyweight division.

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Ol Parker

First Name Ol
Born on June 2, 1969 (age 56)

Oliver Parker, professionally known as Ol Parker, is an English film director, screenwriter, and producer. He wrote and directed the 2018 musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

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Graeme Swann

First Name Graeme
Last Name Swann
Born on March 24, 1979 (age 47)

Graeme Peter Swann is a former English cricketer who played all three formats of the game. Born in Northampton, he attended Sponne School in Towcester, Northamptonshire. He was primarily a right-arm off-spinner, and also a capable late-order batsman with four first-class centuries, and often fielded at second slip. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005.

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Duncan Hames

First Name Duncan
Last Name Hames
Born on June 16, 1977 (age 48)

Duncan John Hames is a Director of Policy at Transparency International UK and a former Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Chippenham constituency in Wiltshire from 2010 to 2015. Between 2012 and 2015, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nick Clegg when he was Deputy Prime Minister.

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Jon Flanagan

Jonathon Patrick Flanagan
First Name Jon
Last Name Flanagan
Born on January 1, 1993 (age 33)
Height 181 cm | 5'11

Jonathon Patrick Flanagan is an English professional footballer who plays as a full back for Charleroi. Flanagan started his career with Liverpool, and has also played for Burnley, Bolton Wanderers and Rangers. He has played in one full international match for the England national team, in 2014.

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James May

James Daniel May
First Name James
Last Name May
Born on January 16, 1963 (age 63)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

James Daniel May is an English television presenter and journalist. He is best known as a co-presenter of the motoring programme Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond from 2003 until 2015. As of 2016, he is a director of the production company W. Chump & Sons and is also a co-presenter in the television series The Grand Tour for Amazon Video, alongside his former Top Gear colleagues, Clarkson and Hammond, as well as Top Gear's former producer Andy Wilman.

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Greig Laidlaw

First Name Greig
Last Name Laidlaw
Born on October 12, 1985 (age 40)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Greig Laidlaw is a Scottish rugby union player. He plays as a scrum-half and as a fly-half for Shining Arcs. Laidlaw holds the record for most caps as captain, 39, of the Scottish national team. He also represented the British and Irish Lions in 2017.

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