List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Alexandra Byrne
Alexandra Byrne is an English costume designer. Much of her career has focused on creating costumes for period dramas. These films include Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), Elizabeth (1998), Finding Neverland (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), The Aeronauts (2019), and Emma. (2020). Byrne's costume design work has earned her six Oscar nominations, and she won the award for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Abigail Cruttenden
Abigail Lucy Cruttenden is an English actress.
Augustus Orlebar
Air Vice Marshal Augustus Henry Orlebar, was a British Army and Royal Air Force officer who served in both world wars.
Josette Simon
Josette Patricia Simon is a British actress from Leicester of Antiguan descent. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Chris Menges
Chris Menges BSC, ASC is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.
Nina Carter
Nina Carter is an English former 1970s Page 3 girl and occasional singer. She currently runs an image consultancy and works as a life coach.
Matilda Ziegler
Matilda Ziegler is an English actress, known for her roles as Pearl Pratt in Lark Rise to Candleford and Donna Ludlow in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Mary McAleese
Mary Patricia McAleese ; née Leneghan is an Irish politician who served as the eighth President of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. She is a Catholic academic and author and holds a licentiate and doctorate in Canon law. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland, and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term. McAleese is the first president of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.
Robert Godley
Robert Godley is a British menswear designer. Godley spent nearly his entire adult life in fashion, working for David Evans & Co. Silk Printers (London), Mantero Silk Printers and Weavers, and Drakes of London. Godley designed ties for gentleman's bespoke clothier Turnbull & Asser in London from 1996–97 and Drakes of London from 1997-2004 before being asked to the United States from London to serve as Creative Director for Polo Ralph Lauren.
Polly Toynbee
Mary Louisa "Polly" Toynbee is a British journalist and writer. She has been a columnist for The Guardian newspaper since 1998.