List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Simon Kinberg
Simon David Kinberg is an American screenwriter, film producer, and television producer. He is best known for his work on the X-Men film franchise, and has also written such films as Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Sherlock Holmes. He has served as a producer on others including Cinderella and The Martian, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. His production company Genre Films had a first-look deal with 20th Century Fox. Kinberg made his directorial debut in the 2019 X-Men film Dark Phoenix from a script he also wrote.
Ed Davey
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey is a British politician who has served as Leader of the Liberal Democrats since 2019. A member of the Liberal Democrats, Davey previously served in the Cameron–Clegg coalition as Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change from 2012 to 2016 and Deputy Leader to Jo Swinson from 2019 to 2020. An "Orange Book" liberal, Davey has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston and Surbiton since 2017, and previously from 1997 to 2015.
Edith Bowman
Edith Eleanor Smith is a Scottish radio DJ and TV presenter. She hosted the Weekday Afternoon Show and the Weekend breakfast on BBC Radio 1 until 2012, and has presented a variety of music-related television shows and music festivals.
Benjamin Clementine
Benjamin Sainte-Clémentine is a British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician. Clementine's debut album At Least for Now won the 2015 Mercury Prize. In February 2019 he was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government, in recognition of his contribution to the arts.
Garry Monk
Garry Alan Monk is an English football manager and former professional player who played as a centre back, and was most recently the manager of Championship club Sheffield Wednesday. His managerial career includes spells at Swansea City, Leeds United, Middlesbrough and Birmingham City.
Diane James
Diane Martine James is a British politician who was a Reform UK Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She was briefly leader-elect of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) but resigned before formalising her leadership, and used to be one of three UKIP Members of the European Parliament for South East England.
Graham Alexander
Graham Alexander is a professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Scottish Premiership side Motherwell. In a lengthy playing career, Alexander represented Scunthorpe United, Luton Town, Preston North End and Burnley. He also made 40 international appearances for Scotland.
Kevin McKidd
Kevin McKidd is a British actor, television director, and occasional singer. Before playing the role of Owen Hunt in Grey's Anatomy, for which he is widely known, McKidd appeared as Tommy Mackenzie in Danny Boyle's Trainspotting (1996), Count Vronsky in the BBC miniseries Anna Karenina (2000), Lucius Vorenus in the historical drama series Rome (2005–2007) and Dan Vasser in the NBC series Journeyman (2007). He provided the voice of John "Soap" MacTavish in the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. He also played Poseidon in the film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Father Deegan in the Father Ted Christmas special.
Philip Rutnam
Sir Philip McDougall Rutnam, is a British former civil servant who was Permanent Secretary at the Home Office from 2017 until his resignation on 29 February 2020. Prior to this, he was the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Transport for five years. Upon resigning, he announced his intention to sue for constructive dismissal against Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Chris Overton
Chris Overton is an English actor and filmmaker, best known for his film, The Silent Child for which he received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Overton is the husband of Rachel Shenton, who wrote and starred in The Silent Child.