List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Richard Cant
Richard Cant is a British actor, best known for his roles in the ITV1 television series Midsomer Murders. He was born in Dartford in 1964.
Gina Yashere
Gina Obedapo Iyashere is a British comedian who has made many appearances on British and American television.
Howling Laud Hope
Alan "Howling Laud" Hope is the Leader of the United Kingdom's Official Monster Raving Loony Party (OMRLP). On the death in 1999 of the party's founder Screaming Lord Sutch, Hope and his pet cat, Catmando, were jointly elected as leaders of the OMRLP. Since June 2002 Hope has been the party's sole leader following Catmando's death in a road traffic crash.
Ed Clancy
Edward Franklin Clancy is a British professional track and road bicycle racer from England, who rides for British amateur team Clancy Briggs Cycling Academy team. On the track his specialist discipline is the team pursuit.
Gavin Peacock
Gavin Keith Peacock is a former footballer who played as a midfielder and striker from 1984 until 2002 for Newcastle United and Chelsea.
Barry Douglas
Barry James Douglas is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Blackburn Rovers, on loan from Premier League club Leeds United and the Scotland national team.
Sue Black
Susan Elizabeth Black is a British computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She has been instrumental in saving Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking, with her Saving Bletchley Park campaign. Since 2018, she has been Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University. She was previously based at the University of Westminster and University College London.
John Amery
John Amery was a pro-Nazi British fascist. In 1942, while in Germany during the Second World War, he proposed the formation of a British volunteer force made up from former prisoners of war as part of the German military. The idea became the British Free Corps, a small unit of the Waffen-SS.
Hollie Webb
Hollie Pearne-Webb, is an English field hockey player who plays as a defender for Wimbledon and the England and Great Britain national teams.
Anthony Seldon
Sir Anthony Francis Seldon is a British educator and contemporary historian. As an author, he is known in part for his political biographies of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May. He was the 13th Master (headmaster) of Wellington College, one of Britain's co-educational independent boarding schools. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham from 2015 to 2020, when he was succeeded by James Tooley. In 2009, he set up The Wellington Academy, the first state school to carry the name of its founding independent school. Before that, he was head of Brighton College.