List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
James Collins
James Michael Collins is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Leon Clarke
Leon Marvin Clarke is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for League One club Shrewsbury Town.
Reuben Singh
Reuben Singh is a British entrepreneur and CEO of contact center company alldayPA and private equity firm Isher Capital. He rose to prominence in the mid-1990s for his Miss Attitude retail chain. He has held many public appointments and was invited by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair to serve on a government advisory panel on small businesses and on the Competitiveness Council. He served on the seven-man government task force which was asked to review and then report on the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport. He was appointed to the DTIs Competitiveness Council and the Small Business Council by the government and is known as the "British Bill Gates". He is also an advocate for the National Living Wage.
Antony Worrall Thompson
Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson is an English restauranteur and celebrity chef, television presenter and radio broadcaster.
Amy Williams
Amy Joy Williams, is a British former skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist. Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton in 2002 after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath. Although unable to qualify for the 2006 Winter Olympics, she was a member of the Great Britain team four years later at the 2010 Games. She won a gold medal, becoming the first British individual gold medallist at a Winter Olympics for 30 years and the only British medallist in those Olympics.
Matthew Wolfenden
Matthew Wolfenden is an English actor best known for his role as David Metcalfe in the British soap opera Emmerdale.
Callum Davidson
Callum Iain Davidson is a Scottish professional football player and coach. He is the manager of St Johnstone. Davidson played as a left-back for St Johnstone, Blackburn Rovers, Leicester City and Preston North End between 1994 and 2014. At international level, Davidson represented Scotland on 19 occasions between 1998 and 2009. Since retiring as a player, Davidson has become a football coach, and was given his first full-time role in management with St Johnstone in June 2020.
Sue Johnston
Susan Johnston, OBE is an English actress known for playing Sheila Grant in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside (1982–1990), Barbara Royle in the BBC comedy The Royle Family, Grace Foley in the BBC drama Waking the Dead (2000–2011), Gloria Price in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2012–2014) and Miss Denker in the ITV drama Downton Abbey (2014–2015). She won the 2000 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actress and was nominated for the 2000 BAFTA TV Award for Best Comedy Performance for The Royle Family.
Lucy Prebble
Lucy Prebble is a British playwright. She is the author of the plays The Sugar Syndrome, The Effect, ENRON and A Very Expensive Poison. For television she adapted Secret Diary of a Call Girl and co-created I Hate Suzie with her close friend Billie Piper. Since 2018, Prebble is Co-Executive Producer and writer on Succession.
Linda Barker
Linda Barker is an English interior designer and television presenter.