List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Rob Baxter
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|birth_name = Robert Baxter
|birth_date = 10 March 1971
|birth_place = Tavistock, Devon, England
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|ru_currentteam = Exeter Chiefs
|ru_currentposition = Director of Rugby
|ru_position = Lock
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|ru_proclubs = Exeter Chiefs
Gloucester
Exeter Chiefs
|ru_clubcaps = 275
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|ru_nationalyears =
1998–2004
|ru_nationalteam = England
Barbarians
|ru_nationalcaps =
4
|ru_nationalpoints =
(5)
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|ru_coachyears = 2009–
|ru_coachclubs = Exeter Chiefs
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|relatives = |[[Keith Fleming
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|school = St Thomas High School
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Sarah Perry
Sarah Grace Perry is an English author. She has had three novels published, all by Serpent's Tail: After Me Comes the Flood, (2014) The Essex Serpent (2016) and Melmoth (2018). Her work has been translated into 22 languages.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is an English screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Danny Boyle. He has achieved fame as the writer for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony and for sequels to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, a children's classic by Ian Fleming.
Hugh Mitchell
Hugh Mitchell is an English actor, best known for playing Colin Creevey in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He also appeared in The White Queen as Richard Welles, alongside Max Irons.
Lauren Christy
Lauren Christy is an English singer, songwriter and record producer. Originally a solo artist, she found success as part of the writing production trio The Matrix. The Matrix received numerous Grammy nominations including best producer.
Jim Sillars
James Sillars is a Scottish politician and a leading figure in the campaign for Scottish independence. Sillars served as a Labour Party MP for South Ayrshire from 1970 to 1976. He founded and led the pro-Scottish Home Rule Scottish Labour Party in 1976, continuing as MP for South Ayrshire until he lost the seat in 1979. Sillars joined the Scottish National Party in 1980 and later served as MP for Glasgow Govan after winning a by-election in 1988, and was Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party. He was married to Margo MacDonald until her death in 2014.
George A.M. Cross
George Alan Martin Cross FRS is a British molecular parasitologist. He has been André and Bella Meyer Professor of Molecular Parasitology at Rockefeller University since 1982. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1984. He was educated at Cheadle Hulme School and Downing College, Cambridge.
Terry Yorath
Terence Charles Yorath is a Welsh former football player and manager at both club and international level. He is also the father of television presenter Gabby Logan.
Charles Cecil
Charles Cecil is a British video game designer and co-founder of Revolution Software. His family lived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo when he was still very young, but was evacuated two years after Mobutu Sese Seko's coup d'état. He studied at Bedales School in Hampshire, England. In 1980 he began his studies in Engineering Manufacture and Management at Manchester University, where he met student Richard Turner who invited him to write text adventures for Artic Computing. After completing his degree in 1985 he decided to continue his career in game development and became director of Artic. The following year he established Paragon Programming, a game development company working with British publisher U.S. Gold. In 1987 he moved into publishing as a software development manager for U.S. Gold. A year later he was approached by Activision and was offered the position of manager of their European development studio.
Steven Price
Steven Price is a British film composer, best known for scoring Gravity, which won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Before making his debut as a composer with Attack the Block, he worked on the music department for various notable films, such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Batman Begins, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.