List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Blue Weaver
Derek John "Blue" Weaver is a Welsh keyboardist, session musician, songwriter and record producer.
Afshan Azad
Afshan Azad is a British actress and model. She is best known for playing the role of Padma Patil in the Harry Potter film series, beginning in 2005 with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Padma was portrayed by Sharon Sandhu.
Pete York
Peter York is a British rock drummer who has been performing since the 1960s.
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources which was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
Nickolas Grace
Nickolas Grace is an English actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Grace also played Dorien Green's husband Marcus Green in the 1990s British comedy series Birds of a Feather.
Freda Kelly
Freda Kelly was the secretary to Brian Epstein and the English rock band the Beatles from 1962 through 1972, and president of the group's official fan club. Kelly worked with the band as it rose from local popularity to world-wide fame, and through its dissolution. A 2013 documentary, Good Ol' Freda, chronicled Kelly's ten-plus year association with the group and its members.
Roland Joffé
Roland Joffé is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award-winning films The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television, his early credits including episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today.
Shona Fraser
Shona Kathryn Fraser is a music journalist in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, having worked for the BBC, MTV, and WDR. She was a judge on Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of Pop Idol, and also represented Germany as a judge on World Idol.
Bill Ivy
William David Ivy was an English professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Maidstone, Kent. He died during practice for a race in East Germany.
Susan Brown
Susan Elizabeth Brown is an English actress of stage and screen. She had roles in the film The Iron Lady (2011) and the first season of the television series Game of Thrones (2011).