List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Maureen Lipman
Dame Maureen Diane Lipman is an English film, theatre, radio and television actress, writer and comedian.
Carl Froch
Carl Martin Froch, is an English former professional boxer who competed from 2002 to 2014, and has since worked as a boxing analyst and commentator for Sky Sports. He held multiple super-middleweight world championships, including the WBC title twice between 2008 and 2011, the IBF title from 2012 to 2015, and the WBA (Unified) title from 2013 to 2015. At regional level he held the British, Commonwealth, and English super-middleweight titles, and won the Lonsdale Belt in 2006. As an amateur in the middleweight division, Froch won a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships, and the ABA title twice.
Camilla Long
Camilla Elizabeth Long is a British newspaper columnist with The Times and The Sunday Times. Long is associate editor of the News Review and a columnist for Style magazine.
Tom Carroll
Thomas James Carroll is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championship side Queens Park Rangers.
Steve Ovett
Stephen Michael James Ovett is a retired British track athlete. A middle-distance runner, he was the gold medalist in the 800 metres at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, and set several world records for 1500 metres and the mile run and a world best at two miles.
David Emanuel
David Emanuel is a Welsh fashion designer who is best known for designing, with his former wife Elizabeth Emanuel, the wedding dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1981.
Suzannah Lipscomb
Suzannah Rebecca Gabriella Lipscomb is a British historian, academic and television presenter who has written and appeared in a number of television and radio programmes about British history as well as being a regular panellist on the quiz programme Insert Name Here. Her research focuses on the sixteenth century, in both English and French history, and covers religious, gender, political, social, and psychological history. Lipscomb has also written about British and European witch trials and has for many years contributed a regular column to the magazine History Today. She was appointed to a personal chair as Professor of History at the University of Roehampton in January 2019.
Jeremy Spencer
Jeremy Cedric Spencer is a British musician who was a guitarist of the rock band Fleetwood Mac from its founding in 1967. He departed abruptly in February 1971, when he joined a religious cult, the Children of God, now known as the Family International, with which he is still affiliated. After a pair of solo albums in the 1970s, he continued to tour as a musician, but did not release another album until 2006. He released further solo albums in 2012, 2014 and 2016, and has also recorded as part of the folk trio Steetley.
James Lawrence
James Alexander Lawrence is a professional footballer who plays for FC St. Pauli and the Wales national team.
Bradly Sinden
Bradly John Sinden is a British Taekwondo athlete who won gold at the 2019 World Taekwondo Championships, becoming the first British male taekwondo champion. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, he reached the final in his weight category where he won a silver medal, losing 34–29 against Ulugbek Rashitov.