List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Alan Moore
Alan Moore is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, Swamp Thing, Batman: The Killing Joke and From Hell. Regarded by some as the best comics writer in the English language, he is widely recognized among his peers and critics. He has occasionally used such pseudonyms as Curt Vile, Jill de Ray, and Translucia Baboon; also, reprints of some of his work have been credited to The Original Writer when Moore requested that his name be removed.
Craig Overton
Craig Overton is an English cricketer who plays for Somerset County Cricket Club and England. He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm medium-fast and bats right-handed. His twin brother, Jamie, also played for Somerset, and has been in the England squad.
Nick Denton
Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton is a British Internet entrepreneur, journalist and blogger, the founder and former proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and was the managing editor of the New York-based Gawker, until a lawsuit by Hulk Hogan bankrupted the company. For years after starting Gawker Media in 2003, Denton ran the company from his apartment in SoHo.
Ian Waite
Ian Waite is a British professional dancer specialising in Latin American dance, a teacher and choreographer.
Earl Cameron
Earlston Jewitt Cameron, CBE was a Bermudian actor who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. Along with Cy Grant, he was one of the first black actors to break the "colour bar" in the United Kingdom. With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.
Anne Marie Morris
Anne Marie Morris is a British Conservative Party politician and former lawyer. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Newton Abbot since 2010. Morris was briefly suspended by the Conservative Party in 2017 for using the racially charged expression "nigger in the woodpile" during a public meeting. She said her comment was unintentional and apologised for any offence caused.
Skandar Keynes
Skandar Keynes is an English political adviser and former actor. Best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia film series since 2005, he appeared in all three installments: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which was released on 10 December 2010.
Charlie Dimmock
Charlotte Elouise Dimmock is an English gardening expert and television presenter. She was a member of the team on Ground Force, a BBC gardening makeover programme, which aired from 1997 until 2005.
John Paul Jones
John Richard Baldwin, better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English musician and record producer who was the bassist and keyboardist for the rock band Led Zeppelin. Prior to forming the band with Jimmy Page in 1968, he was a session musician and arranger. After the death of drummer John Bonham in 1980, Led Zeppelin disbanded, and Jones developed a solo career. He has collaborated with musicians across a variety of genres, including Josh Homme and Dave Grohl with the supergroup Them Crooked Vultures.
Freddie Woodman
Frederick John Woodman is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Championship club Swansea City on loan from Newcastle United.