List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Mark Davis
Mark Davis is an English professional snooker player from St Leonards in Sussex. Davis became professional in 1991 but for many years was considered something of a journeyman; however, he vastly improved his game in the late 2000s, and as a result managed to get in the top 16 for the first time in 2012. The highlights of his career so far have been winning the Benson & Hedges Championship in 2002, and the six-red snooker world championships three times. Davis reached his first ranking event final in 2018, where he lost to Stuart Bingham in the final of the English Open. Prior to this he was widely considered to be the best player never to have reached a ranking final.
Joe Jordan
Joseph Jordan is a Scottish football player, coach and manager. His last role was as assistant manager of Middlesbrough.
Gareth Jones
Gareth Jones, also known as Gaz Top, is a Welsh television presenter.
Theo Archibald
Theodore Valentine Archibald is a Scottish professional footballer who plays for Lincoln City as a right winger. He is a product of the Celtic academy and has been capped by Scotland at youth level.
Steve Harper
Stephen Alan Harper is an English former professional footballer, and currently first team coach for Newcastle United and goalkeeping coach for the Northern Ireland national team. He is best known for his time playing at Newcastle, having amassed 157 league appearances over a twenty-year period between 1993 and 2013. Although he was not always the first choice goalkeeper at Newcastle, he was the longest-serving player in the club's history.
Isaac Chamberlain
Isaac Chamberlain is a British professional boxer.
David Nugent
David James Nugent is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Preston North End.
Phil Power
Philip Damian Power is an English football manager and former professional footballer who played in the Football League, as a forward. He was most recently manager at Salford City, and was recently featured in the BBC documentary, Class of '92: Out of Their League.
Derek Laud
Derek George Henry Laud is Chairman of the Foundation Board of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and a former British lobbyist, businessman, political adviser, speechwriter, and journalist. He received public attention when he was a contestant in the 2005 series of the British reality television show Big Brother. Laud is co-founder and the executive director of the New City Initiative, a think tank and financial lobbying company. He is also a partner, partnership secretary, Director of the Advisory Board, and Director of Corporate Affairs at wealth management company Stanhope Capital LLP. Laud was the first black member of the Conservative Monday Club and first black master of foxhounds in the United Kingdom.
Pat Jennings
Patrick Anthony Jennings is a Northern Irish former footballer. He played 119 international matches for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper, in an international career which lasted for over 22 years. During his career Jennings played for Newry Town, Watford, and in the top division with Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, winning the FA Cup with both of the north London rivals. In total, Jennings made over 1,000 top level appearances, and despite being a goalkeeper he scored in the 1967 FA Charity Shield.