List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Eric Joyce
Eric Stuart Joyce is a British politician, former military officer and convicted child sex offender. A former member of the Labour Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk, formerly Falkirk West, from 2000 to 2015.
Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Margaret Elizabeth Goldfrapp is an English musician and record producer, best known as the vocalist of British electronic music duo Goldfrapp.
Tameka Empson
Tameka Empson is an English actress and comedian. She appeared as one of the three protagonists in the hidden-camera comedy sketch show 3 Non-Blondes. In 2009, she began portraying the role of Kim Fox in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Paul Collingwood
Paul David Collingwood is a former English cricketer, having played all three formats of the game internationally for England. Collingwood played for Durham County Cricket Club and was the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 winning captain. He was a regular member of the England Test side and captain of the One Day International (ODI) team (2007–2008). He is the first T20I cap for England.
Jade Jones
Jade Jones-Hall, known previously as Jade Jones, is an English wheelchair racer, competing in T54 events, and a paratriathlete competing in handbike-to-wheelchair classifications. Jones competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 400m, 800m and 1500m. In 2018, she won the gold medal in Paratriathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Alessandro Venturella
Alessandro Venturella is a British musician who currently is the bass player for American heavy metal band Slipknot. He previously has served as a lead guitarist for Krokodil and Cry for Silence. Earlier in his career, he was the touring guitar tech for Mastodon's Brent Hinds, Coheed and Cambria, Architects, and Fightstar.
Tali Lennox
Tali Lennox Fruchtmann, known professionally as Tali Lennox, is a British model, artist, and actress, who used to work for Topshop and Burberry. As of 2014 she reduced her modelling focus and became a portrait painter. She is the daughter of Scottish singer Annie Lennox and Israeli record producer Uri Fruchtmann, and sister of Lola Lennox.
Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson is an English writer, playwright and performer, and the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which include The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom and Stick Man. She originally wrote songs for children's television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, "A Squash and a Squeeze", were made into a children's book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme, which is part of the Oxford University Press's Oxford Reading Tree.
Andrew Fletcher
Andrew John Fletcher, popularly known as "Fletch", is an English keyboard player and one of the founding members of the electronic band Depeche Mode.
Jacqueline Wilson
Dame Jacqueline Wilson is an English novelist known for her popular children's literature. Her novels have been notable for featuring controversial themes such as adoption and divorce without alienating her large readership. Four of her books appear in the BBC's The Big Read poll of the 100 most popular books in the UK. Since her debut novel in 1969, Wilson has written over 100 books. In 2010, it was revealed that she is the most borrowed author in libraries across the UK.