List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Joe Denly
Joseph Liam Denly is an English professional cricketer who plays for Kent County Cricket Club. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional leg break bowler who plays as a top-order batsman. Denly played age group cricket for Kent and began his professional career with the county before moving to Middlesex for three seasons between 2012 and 2014. He won the Professional Cricketers' Association Player of the Year award in 2018 and was named the season's Most Valuable Player.
Rob James-Collier
Robert James-Collier is a British actor and model. He is known for his roles as Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey and as Liam Connor in Coronation Street.
Tim Martin
Timothy Randall Martin is a British businessman best known as the founder and chairman of Wetherspoons, a pub chain in the UK and Ireland. He is also a prominent critic of the European Union.
Ian "H" Watkins
Ian Watkins, known professionally as H, is a Welsh singer and actor. He is known as a member of the British pop group Steps. In 2020, he competed in the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice.
Samantha Beckinsale
Samantha Jane Beckinsale is a British actress. Her TV appearances include Firefighter Kate Stevens in London's Burning and Lesley in the sitcom Shelley in 1989–92. She is the elder daughter of Richard Beckinsale and Margaret Bradley, stepdaughter of Judy Loe, and half-sister of Kate Beckinsale. She studied drama at Clarendon College Nottingham.
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins is an English professional snooker player from Ditton, Kent. He turned professional in 1996, but only rose to prominence in the 2004–05 snooker season, when he reached the last 16 of the 2004 UK Championship, the quarter-finals of the 2004 British Open, and the semi-finals of the 2005 Welsh Open. He has now spent twelve successive seasons ranked inside the top 32. He reached his first ranking final and won his first ranking title at the 2012 Australian Goldfields Open.
Toby Anstis
Toby Anstis is an English radio and television presenter. He is a presenter on Heart and spin-off station Heart Dance.
Alison Moyet
Geneviève Alison Jane Moyet is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her powerful bluesy contralto voice. She came to prominence as half of the duo Yazoo, but has since mainly worked as a solo artist.
Alan Johnson
Alan Arthur Johnson is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for the Home Department from 2009 to 2010 and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2011. A member of the Labour Party, Johnson served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle from 1997 to 2017.
Joan Bakewell
Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell,, is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is President of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author and playwright, and has been awarded Humanist of the year for services to humanism.