List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Ian Poveda
Ian Carlo Poveda-Ocampo, sometimes known as Ian Carlo Poveda or Ian Poveda-Ocampo, is an English professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Leeds United and England U20s as a winger or as a attacking midfielder.
Jonny Owen
Jonathan Tudor "Jonny" Owen is a Welsh producer, actor and writer who has appeared in TV shows including Shameless, Murphy's Law and My Family. Owen won a Welsh BAFTA in 2007 for the documentary The Aberfan Disaster which he co-produced with Judith Davies.
Mary Quant
Dame Barbara Mary Quant, Mrs Plunket Greene, is an English fashion designer and fashion icon, who is of Welsh heritage.
Emma Freud
Emma Vallencey Freud is an English broadcaster and cultural commentator.
Kemi Badenoch
Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch has been the British Conservative politician Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden since the 2017 general election. She was born in Wimbledon, London to parents of Nigerian origin. Her childhood was spent in Lagos, Nigeria and the United States. She moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 16. After studying Computer Systems Engineering at the University of Sussex, she worked as a software engineer at Logica. Badenoch went on to work at RBS as a systems analyst before working as an associate director at Coutts and later as a director at The Spectator magazine.
Nick Bateman
Nicholas Bateman, also known as "Nasty Nick", is a British media personality and a contestant on the first series of the British version of Big Brother.
Saira Khan
Saira Khan is a British television personality. She was a contestant on the first series of The Apprentice in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up. From 2012 to 2017, Khan co-presented The Martin Lewis Money Show, and in 2015, she presented the ITV series Guess This House. From 2015 to 2020, she was a regular panelist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. Khan has also competed in the eighteenth series of Celebrity Big Brother in 2016, and in 2019, she competed in the eleventh series of Dancing on Ice.
Peter Serafinowicz
Peter Szymon Serafinowicz is an English actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his roles as the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Pete in Shaun of the Dead (2004), and Garthan Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). He has also appeared in many British and American comedy series. He starred as the titular character in the 2016 live-action series of The Tick and has received attention for political satire videos in which he voices different versions of Donald Trump, including Cockney, sassy, and posh. He has also directed music videos for acts such as Hot Chip and Kitchen Gun.
Lee Pearson
Sir David Lee Pearson is a 12-times Paralympic Games gold medallist having represented British para-equestrianism in Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, and Tokyo. Over the course of his career he has won 30 gold medals at European, World and Paralympic level.
Asif Kapadia
Asif Kapadia is a British filmmaker. His early award-winning films include The Sheep Thief (1997), winner of the 2nd Prize Cinéfondation for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival, and The Warrior (2001), winning the BAFTA Award for Best British Film 2003.