List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Jamie Clarke is a Welsh professional snooker player.

Jonathan Benjamin Gill is an English singer and farmer. He is best known as a member of boy band JLS, who came second on The X Factor in 2008. They went on to have five number-one singles and sold over 10 million records worldwide before disbanding in December 2013.

Nicholas Bowen "Topper" Headon is an English drummer, best known as the drummer of punk rock band the Clash.

Neal Robert Bishop is an English semi-professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scarborough Athletic. He previously played for Billingham Town, Gateshead, Spennymoor United, Whitby Town, Scarborough, York City, Barnet, Notts County, Blackpool and Scunthorpe United. He also represented England C at international level.

Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks. Since 2013 he divides his time working for Google and the University of Toronto. In 2017, he cofounded and became the Chief Scientific Advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.

Tahir Shah is a British author, journalist and documentary maker of Afghan-Indian descent. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.

Emer Gwynne Morganna Kenny is a British actress and screenwriter.

Jamie Conlan is a former professional boxer from Northern Ireland who competed from 2009 to 2017, and has since worked as a boxing manager. He held the Commonwealth super-flyweight title in 2016 and challenged for the IBF super-flyweight title in 2017. He is the older brother of professional boxer Michael Conlan.

Michael Holt is an English professional snooker player from Nottingham. A former world Top 20 player, he has won one ranking event – the 2020 Snooker Shoot Out – and two minor-ranking tournaments. He has been runner-up at two ranking events – the 2016 Riga Masters and the 2019 Snooker Shoot Out. He also reached the semi-finals of the 2013 Shanghai Masters as well as five further quarter-finals.

David Whelan is an English former footballer. During his football career, he played for Blackburn Rovers and Crewe Alexandra. Whelan is the former owner of Football League Championship club Wigan Athletic, having also been the chairman of the club for twenty years, before passing the position over to his grandson, David Sharpe, who eventually passed the ownership over to International Entertainment Corporation.