List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Simon Thomas

First Name Simon
Last Name Thomas
Born on January 26, 1973 (age 53)

Simon Thomas is an English television presenter who worked on Blue Peter for six years, and presented live Premier League football on Sky Sports from 2005-2018.

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Hilary Bonner

First Name Hilary
Born on January 1, 1949 (age 77)

Hilary Bonner is an English crime novelist, best known for her psychological thrillers. Almost all Bonner's novels are inspired by real life events, often drawing on her journalistic past.

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Deborah Moore

First Name Deborah
Born on October 27, 1963 (age 62)

Deborah Maria Luisa Moore is an English actress and the daughter of actor Roger Moore and Italian actress Luisa Mattioli.

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Sarah Wollaston

First Name Sarah
Last Name Wollaston
Born on February 17, 1962 (age 64)

Sarah Wollaston is a British Liberal Democrat politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Totnes from 2010 to 2019. First elected for the Conservative Party, she later served as a Change UK and Liberal Democrat MP. She was Chair of the Health Select Committee from 2014 to 2019 and Chair of the Liaison Committee from 2017 to 2019.

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Mark Burnett

First Name Mark
Last Name Burnett
Born on July 17, 1960 (age 65)

Mark Burnett is a British television producer who is the current Chairman of MGM Worldwide Television Group. He is best known for creating and producing the reality show The Apprentice and producing Survivor.

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Ruth Strauss

First Name Ruth
Last Name Strauss
Born on March 14, 1963 (age 63)

Ruth Strauss is a former English professional squash player.

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Keely Hodgkinson

First Name Keely
Born on March 3, 2002 (age 24)

Keely Nicole Hodgkinson is an English athlete specialising in the 800 metres. Aged 19, she won a silver medal at the 2020 Olympics after breaking the British record set by Kelly Holmes in 1995, and a European junior record. She also won gold medal at the 2021 European Indoor Championships as the youngest Briton to win a European Indoor gold. Hodgkinson was European under-18 champion in 2018, and under-20 bronze medallist in 2019.

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James Burke

First Name James
Last Name Burke
Born on December 22, 1936 (age 89)

James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer. He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the popular television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".

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Ben Goldsmith

First Name Ben
Last Name Goldsmith
Born on October 28, 1980 (age 45)

Benjamin James Goldsmith is an English financier and environmentalist. The son of financier James Goldsmith and Lady Annabel Goldsmith he is founder and CEO of London-listed investment firm Menhaden, which focuses on the theme of energy and resource efficiency. Previously he co-founded the sustainability-focused investment firm WHEB, whose private equity business split away in 2014 and now trades under the name Alaina Partners. He has used his personal wealth to support both philanthropic and political projects in the area of the environment and sustainability.

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Becky Hill

Rebecca Claire Hill
First Name Becky
Born on February 14, 1994 (age 32)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Rebecca Claire Hill is an English singer and songwriter from Bewdley, Worcestershire. She rose to prominence after appearing on the first series of The Voice UK, auditioning with John Legend's "Ordinary People". She joined Jessie J's team and reached the semi-final of the competition. On 29 June 2014 she became the first The Voice UK contestant to score a UK number 1 when the song, "Gecko (Overdrive)" with Oliver Heldens topped the UK Singles Chart.

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