List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Bernard Rands

First Name Bernard
Last Name Rands
Born on March 2, 1934 (age 92)

Bernard Rands is a British-American contemporary classical music composer. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition with Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna in Darmstadt, Germany, and with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio in Milan, Italy. He held residencies at Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of York before emigrating to the United States in 1975; he became a U.S. citizen in 1983. In 1984, Rands's Canti del Sole, premiered by Paul Sperry, Zubin Mehta, and the New York Philharmonic, won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He has since taught at the University of California, San Diego, the Juilliard School, Yale University, and Boston University. From 1988 to 2005 he taught at Harvard University, where he is Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus. For his notable students, See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Bernard Rands.

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Oliver Wakeman

First Name Oliver
Last Name Wakeman
Born on February 26, 1972 (age 54)

Oliver Wakeman is an English musician, rock keyboardist and composer, best known as a member of Yes from 2008 to 2011, having filled the role of keyboardist previously held by his father, Rick Wakeman.

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William Craven, 5th Earl of Craven

First Name William
Last Name Craven
Born on July 31, 1897
Died on September 15, 1932 (aged 35)

William George Bradley Craven, 5th Earl of Craven was a British peer.

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George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle

First Name George
Last Name Carlisle
Born on February 15, 1949 (age 77)

George William Beaumont Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle, styled Viscount Morpeth from 1963 to 1994, is a British nobleman, politician, and hereditary peer. He inherited the titles Earl of Carlisle, Viscount Howard of Morpeth, Baron Dacre of Gillesland and Lord Ruthven of Freeland, in 1994 upon the death of his father, Charles Howard, 12th Earl of Carlisle. A member of the Howard family and a kinsman of the Duke of Norfolk, he is also a co-heir to the baronies of Greystock and Clifford.

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Patrick Marber

First Name Patrick
Last Name Marber
Born on September 19, 1964 (age 62)

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, actor, and screenwriter.

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Tom Cecil Noel

First Name Tom
Last Name Noel
Born on December 12, 1897
Died on August 22, 1918 (aged 20)

Lieutenant Tom Cecil Noel was a British World War I infantry officer turned aerial observer, notable for winning a Military Cross for bravery on both land and air. In conjunction with his pilots, he was credited with 24 victories over enemy aircraft, consisting of 12 destroyed, 1 captured, and 11 'out of control'.

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Gerald Seymour

First Name Gerald
Last Name Seymour
Born on November 25, 1941 (age 84)

Gerald Seymour is a British writer of crime and espionage novels.

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David Gentleman

First Name David
Last Name Gentleman

David William Gentleman is an English artist. He studied illustration at the Royal College of Art under Edward Bawden and John Nash. He has worked in watercolour, lithography and wood engraving, at scales ranging from platform-length murals for Charing Cross Underground Station in London to postage stamps and logos.

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Selina Cadell

First Name Selina
Born on August 12, 1953 (age 73)

Selina Jane Cadell is an English actress. She is the younger sister of actor Simon Cadell and granddaughter of actress Jean Cadell. She is the great niece of the Scottish artist Francis Cadell.

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Lewis Clive

First Name Lewis
Last Name Clive
Born on September 8, 1910
Died on August 2, 1938 (aged 27)

Lewis Clive was a British rower who won a gold medal in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He volunteered to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was killed in action.

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