List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Lewis Cook
Lewis John Cook is an English professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder or right midfielder for Championship club AFC Bournemouth and the England national team.
Enzo Maccarinelli
Enzo Maccarinelli is a Welsh former professional boxer who competed from 1999 to 2016. He held the WBO cruiserweight title from 2006 to 2008, and the European and British cruiserweight titles between 2010 and 2012.
Jermaine Beckford
Jermaine Paul Alexander Beckford is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He began his career as a trainee at Chelsea, and played for Wealdstone, Uxbridge, Leeds United, Carlisle United, Scunthorpe United, Everton, Leicester City, Huddersfield Town, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End and Bury. He also represented Jamaica at international level.
Judi Bowker
Judi Bowker is an English film and television actress.
Graeme McDowell
Graeme McDowell MBE is a professional golfer from Northern Ireland who plays on both the PGA Tour and European Tour. He is well known for winning the 2010 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, where he ended a 40-year drought for Europeans at the tournament.
Victoria Bateman
Victoria N. Bateman is a British feminist economist and academic, specialising in economic history. She is a fellow in economics at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She is Director of Studies for the Economics Tripos at Gonville and Caius College.
Madeline Smith
Madeline Smith is an English actress. Having been a model in the late 1960s, she has appeared in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s.
Anne Reid
Anne Reid, MBE is an English stage, film and television actress, known for her roles as Valerie Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street (1961–1971); Jean in the sitcom dinnerladies (1998–2000); and her BAFTA-nominated role as Celia Dawson in Last Tango in Halifax (2012–2020). She won the London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for the film The Mother (2003).
Shirley Manson
Shirley Ann Manson is a Scottish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is best known as the lead singer of the alternative rock band Garbage. Manson gained media attention for her forthright style, rebellious attitude, and distinctive voice. For the majority of her career, Manson commuted between her home city of Edinburgh and the U.S. to record with Garbage, which originally formed in Madison, Wisconsin; she now lives and works primarily in Los Angeles, while maintaining a second home in Edinburgh.
Dean Hoyle
Dean Hoyle is the founder and former owner of Card Factory and the ex-chairman and owner of Championship side Huddersfield Town. In 2015, Hoyle became chairman and majority shareholder of British discount retailer, The Works.