List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Safyaan Sharif
Safyaan Mohammed Sharif is a Scottish cricketer. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and a right-handed batsman. He made his international debut for Scotland in June 2011.
Sam Curran
Samuel Matthew Curran is an English cricketer, who plays for Surrey, and England. Curran is a left-handed batsman and left-arm medium-fast bowler. The International Cricket Council (ICC) named Curran as one of the five breakout stars in men's cricket in 2018, and the 2019 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack chose him as one of their five Cricketers of the Year. He has represented the Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In April 2019, he became the youngest bowler to take a hat-trick in an IPL match, at the age of 20.
Chris Ramsey
Christopher Ramsey is an English comedian, television presenter and actor. After appearing in Hebburn as Jack (2012–2013), Ramsey began presenting series including I'm A Celebrity: Extra Camp (2016), Virtually Famous (2016–2017) and Stand Up Central (2017).
Paul Kaye
Paul Kaye is an English comedian and actor. Kaye is best known for his portrayals of shock interviewer Dennis Pennis on The Sunday Show, New York lawyer Mike Strutter on MTV's Strutter, Thoros of Myr in HBO's Game of Thrones and Vincent the Fox on the BBC comedy Mongrels.
Tom Hopper
Thomas Edward Hopper is a British actor. He has appeared as Sir Percival in Merlin, Billy Bones in Black Sails, Dickon Tarly in Game of Thrones, and Luther Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy.
Tim Henman
Timothy Henry Henman OBE is a British retired professional tennis player. Henman played a serve-and-volley style of tennis. He was the first male player from the United Kingdom since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. Henman never reached a final of any Grand Slam but reached six Grand Slam semi-finals and won 15 career ATP titles, including the Paris Masters in 2003. Also, he scored 40 wins and 14 losses with the Great Britain Davis Cup team.
Rachel Shenton
Rachel Joy Shenton is an English actress, screenwriter, and activist known for playing Mitzeee Minniver on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks (2010–2013), Lily Summers in ABC Family drama Switched at Birth (2014–2017). Joanne Scott in BBC2 comedy White Gold (2019) and Helen Alderson in All Creatures Great and Small (2020).
Maya Jama
Maya Indea Jama is a British television and radio presenter. She has co-presented Trending Live! on 4Music from 2015 until 2017, Cannonball on ITV in 2017, the MTV show True Love or True Lies with Dani Dyer, and the first series of The Circle on Channel 4 with Alice Levine. She presented a BBC Radio 1 show on Fridays and Saturdays 10:00am–1:00pm GMT. Jama co-hosted BBC One's Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer during the 2020 lockdown.
Paul Gascoigne
Paul John Gascoigne is an English former professional football player and manager. He is also known by his nickname, Gazza. An attacking midfielder, he earned 57 caps in his England career and is widely recognised as the most naturally talented English footballer of his generation.
Tom Parker
Tom Parker is an English singer best known for being a member of the British-Irish boy band the Wanted.