List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Paul Messier

First Name Paul
Last Name Messier
Born on January 27, 1958 (age 68)

Paul Edmond Messier is a retired ice hockey player. He is the older brother of NHL player Mark Messier.

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Paul Deighton, Baron Deighton

First Name Paul
Last Name Deighton
Born on January 18, 1956 (age 70)

Paul Clive Deighton, Baron Deighton, KBE is a British Conservative politician who served as Commercial Secretary to HM Treasury from January 2013 to May 2015. Deighton is a former investment banker who previously served as Chief Executive of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), the organisation responsible for planning the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.

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Geoffrey Ozin

First Name Geoffrey
Last Name Ozin
Born on August 23, 1943 (age 82)

Geoffrey Alan Stuart Ozin FRSC is a British chemist, currently Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Materials Chemistry and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Toronto. Ozin is the recipient of numerous awards for his research on nanomaterials, including the Meldola Medal and Prize in 1972 and the Rutherford Memorial Medal in 1982. He won the Albert Einstein World Award of Science in 2011, the Royal Society of Chemistry's Centenary Prize in 2015, and the Humboldt Prize in 2005 and 2019. He has co-founded three university spin-off companies: Torrovap in 1985, which manufactures metal vapor synthesis scientific instrumentation; Opalux in 2006, which develops tunable photonic crystals; and Solistra in 2019, which develops photocatalysts and photoreactors for hydrogen production from carbon dioxide and methane.

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Sally Gardner

First Name Sally
Last Name Gardner
Born on October 2, 1953 (age 72)

Sally Gardner is a British children's writer and illustrator. She won both the Costa Children's Book Award and the Carnegie Medal for Maggot Moon.

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Justin Edwards

First Name Justin
Last Name Edwards
Born on February 14, 1972 (age 54)

Justin Matthew Edwards is a British actor and writer.

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Jeremy Sams

First Name Jeremy
Last Name Sams
Born on January 12, 1957 (age 69)

Jeremy Sams is a British theatre director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer, and lyricist.

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David Gold

First Name David
Last Name Gold
Born on September 9, 1936 (age 89)

David Gold is an English businessman. He was the chairman of Birmingham City Football Club until 2009. Since 2010, he has been the joint chairman of West Ham United.

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Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi

First Name Rokhsaneh
Born on March 12, 1983 (age 43)

Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi is an English actress. She is known for portraying the role of Leyla Harding in ITV soap Emmerdale.

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Roger Kirby

Roger Sinclair Kirby
First Name Roger
Last Name Kirby
Born on October 31, 1950 (age 75)

Roger Sinclair Kirby FRCS(Urol), FEBU is a British retired prostate surgeon and professor of urology, researcher, writer on men's health and prostate disease, founding editor of the journal Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases and Trends in Urology and Men's Health and a fundraiser for prostate disease charities, best known for his use of the da Vinci surgical robot for laparoscopic prostatectomy in the treatment of prostate cancer. He is a co-founder and president of the charity The Urology Foundation (TUF), vice-president of the charity Prostate Cancer UK, trustee of the King Edward VII's Hospital and past chair of the Academic Board of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), of which, as of 28 July 2020, he is its president.

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Ian Wood

First Name Ian
Last Name Wood
Born on July 21, 1942 (age 84)

Sir Ian Clark Wood, is a Scottish businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for his work in the North Sea oil industry with Wood Group, which he was largely responsible for transforming from a company of modest size, serving a primarily local market, to a large corporation with operations in over 50 countries. He served as Wood Group's chief executive from 1967 to 2006, and as chairman until 2012. Wood is one of Scotland's wealthiest people, with an estimated net worth of around £2.15 billion (2015).

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