List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Jah Wobble
John Joseph Wardle, known by the stage name Jah Wobble, is an English bass guitarist, singer, poet and composer. He became known to a wider audience as the original bass player in Public Image Ltd (PiL) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but left the band after two albums. Following his departure from PiL, he developed a successful solo career. In 2012, he reunited with fellow PiL guitarist Keith Levene for Metal Box in Dub and the album Yin & Yang. Since 2013, he has been one of the featured pundits on Sunday morning's The Virtual Jukebox segment of BBC Radio 5 Live's Up All Night with Dotun Adebayo. His autobiography, Memoirs of a Geezer, was published in 2009. His daughter is music producer Natalie Wardle.
Harold Davenport
Harold Davenport FRS was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory.
Gavin Scott
Gavin Duncan Scott is an English novelist, broadcaster and writer of the Emmy-winning mini-series The Mists of Avalon, Small Soldiers, The Borrowers and Legend of Earthsea. He spent ten years making films for British television before becoming a screenwriter, creating more than two hundred documentaries and short films for BBC and the commercial TV, including UK’s prestigious Channel 4. His first assignment in the United States was with George Lucas, developing and scripting The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. His work ranges from family entertainment to comedy, science fiction and historical dramas.
Elsa Punset
Josephine Barstow
Dame Josephine Clare Barstow, is an English opera singer and soprano.
Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Anthony Scarfe, is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker.
Percival Manglano
Rodney Baxter
Rodney James Baxter FRS FAA is an Australian physicist, specializing in statistical mechanics. He is well known for his work in exactly solved models, in particular vertex models such as the six-vertex model and eight-vertex model, and the chiral Potts model and hard hexagon model. A recurring theme in the solution of such models, the Yang–Baxter equation, also known as the "star–triangle relation", is named in his honour.
Nico Parker
Nico Parker is an English actress. She had her breakthrough role as Milly Farrier in the Walt Disney Pictures film Dumbo (2019), directed by Tim Burton.
Stanley Bate
Stanley Bate was an English composer and pianist.