List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Nick Grimshaw

First Name Nick
Last Name Grimshaw
Born on August 14, 1984 (age 41)
Height 179 cm | 5'10

Nicholas Peter Andrew Grimshaw, also known as Grimmy, is an English television and radio presenter. He became known for having hosted a variety of shows on BBC Radio 1 including his current Drivetime show, and The Radio 1 Breakfast Show between 2012 and 2018. He is also known for his Channel 4 roles in T4 and The Album Chart Show. In 2015, he was a judge on the twelfth series of The X Factor.

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Peter Phillips

Peter Mark Andrew Phillips
First Name Peter
Last Name Phillips
Born on November 15, 1977 (age 48)

Peter Mark Andrew Phillips is a member of the British royal family. He is a businessman and the elder child and only son of Anne, Princess Royal, and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips. He is the eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and is 15th in the line of succession to the British throne.

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Olivia Cooke

First Name Olivia
Last Name Cooke
Born on December 27, 1993 (age 32)
Height 165 cm | 5'5

Olivia Kate Cooke is an English actress. She is known for her starring role as Emma Decody in the A&E drama thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017) and as Becky Sharp in the period drama miniseries Vanity Fair (2018). She also starred in the horror film Ouija (2014), the comedy-drama film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), the period horror mystery film The Limehouse Golem (2016), the thriller film Thoroughbreds (2017), and Steven Spielberg's sci-fi film Ready Player One (2018).

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Mary McCartney

First Name Mary
Last Name McCartney
Born on August 28, 1969 (age 56)

Mary Anna McCartney is a British photographer and Global Ambassador for Meat Free Monday and Green Monday. She is the daughter of musician and singer/songwriter Paul McCartney and photographer/musician Linda McCartney.

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Katie Leung

First Name Katie
Last Name Leung
Born on August 8, 1987 (age 38)
Height 163 cm | 5'4

Katie Liu Leung is a Scottish actress. She played Cho Chang, the first love interest for lead character Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series. In 2012, Leung made her stage debut in the play Wild Swans. Leung has an interest in painting and photography and studied art and design at the University of the Arts London.

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David Gandy

First Name David
Last Name Gandy
Born on February 19, 1980 (age 46)
Height 188 cm | 6'2

David James Gandy is an English male fashion model who began his career after winning a televised model-search competition. For several years, Gandy was the lead male model for Italian designers Dolce & Gabbana who featured him in their advertising campaigns and fashion shows.

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Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer

First Name Charles
Last Name Spencer
Born on May 20, 1964 (age 62)

Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer,, styled Viscount Althorp between 1975 and 1992, is a British peer, author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is the younger brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, and is the maternal uncle of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex.

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John Christie

First Name John
Last Name Christie
Born on April 8, 1899
Died on July 15, 1953 (aged 54)

John Reginald Halliday Christie, known to his family and friends as Reg Christie, was an English serial killer and alleged necrophile active during the 1940s and early 1950s. Christie murdered at least eight people—including his wife, Ethel—by strangling them in his flat at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. The bodies of three of Christie's victims were found in a wallpaper-covered kitchen alcove soon after he had moved out of Rillington Place during March 1953. The remains of two more victims were discovered in the garden, and his wife's body was found beneath the floorboards of the front room. Christie was arrested and convicted of his wife's murder, for which he was hanged.

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John Major

First Name John
Last Name Major
Born on March 29, 1943 (age 83)

Sir John Major is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. Major served in the Thatcher government from 1987 to 1990 and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon, formerly Huntingdonshire, from 1979 to 2001. Since Margaret Thatcher's death in 2013, he has been both the oldest and earliest-serving of all the living former British prime ministers.

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Keith Richards

First Name Keith
Last Name Richards
Born on December 18, 1943 (age 82)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Keith Richards, often referred to during the 1960s and 1970s as Keith Richard, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine called Richards the creator of "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him fourth on its list of 100 best guitarists in 2011. The magazine lists fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger on its "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

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