List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Niko Omilana
Nikolas "Niko" Omilana is a British YouTube personality and politician who is running in the 2021 London mayoral election. He is known for his YouTube channel named Niko Omilana which currently has more than 3.62 million subscribers. His channel mainly consists of parody videos, original comedic sketches, prank-styled videos, and various vlog entries. He is the founding father and supreme leader of the Niko Defence League, a parody of the far-right political movement the English Defence League. This was in turn started after a series of videos in which he infiltrated and pranked far-right organisations and politicians including Tommy Robinson.
Clare Grogan
Claire Patricia Grogan, known professionally as Clare Grogan or sometimes as C. P. Grogan, is a Scottish actress and singer. She is best known as the lead singer of the 1980s new wave music group Altered Images and for supporting roles in the 1981 film Gregory's Girl and the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf as the first incarnation of Kristine Kochanski.
Ben Foden
Benjamin James Foden is a rugby union player who plays for Rugby United New York (RUNY) in Major League Rugby (MLR). A fullback or scrum-half, he won 34 caps for England between 2009 and 2013.
Sian Clifford
Sian Clifford is an English actress. She is best known for playing Claire, the older sister of the titular character in the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019) and also portrayed Martha Crawley in the ITV/Amazon Studios series Vanity Fair (2018). In 2020, she played Diana Ingram in the ITV series Quiz.
David Weir
David Russell Weir is a British Paralympic wheelchair athlete. He has won a total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games, and has won the London Marathon on eight occasions. He was born with a spinal cord transection that left him unable to use his legs.
Michael Kosterlitz
John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.
Joe Martin
Joseph John Martin is an English professional footballer who plays for League Two club Stevenage. He is a left-sided defender, who can also play as a midfielder. He represented England at under-16 and under-17 levels.
Sam Ricketts
Samuel Derek Ricketts is a professional football coach and former player. He was most recently serving as the manager of Shrewsbury Town.
Paul McGann
Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer (1986), then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I (1987), which was a critical success and developed a cult following. McGann later became more widely known for portraying the eighth incarnation of the Doctor in the 1996 Doctor Who television film. He is also known for playing Lieutenant William Bush in the series Hornblower.
Alan Farthing
Alan John Farthing, FRCOG, is an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Household.