List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Simon Halsey

First Name Simon
Last Name Halsey
Born on March 8, 1958 (age 68)

Simon Halsey, CBE is an English choral conductor. He is the Chorus Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus, a position he has held since 1983, and has been Chorus Director of the London Symphony Chorus since 2012. He is also artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic Youth Choral Programme and the director of the BBC Proms Youth Choir, and Conductor Laureate of the Berlin Radio Choir. He is Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Birmingham.

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Bill Paterson

First Name Bill
Last Name Paterson
Born on June 3, 1945 (age 81)

William Tulloch Paterson is a Scottish actor and commentator. He has appeared in many film and television projects including Comfort and Joy (1984), Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), Wives and Daughters (1999), Sea of Souls (2004–2007), Amazing Grace (2006), Miss Potter (2006), and PBS's Little Dorrit (2008). He most recently appeared in series 2 of Sky One comedy series Brassic (2020) as Tom Tillerton.

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Andy Mabbett

First Name Andy
Last Name Mabbett
Born on November 30, 1959 (age 66)

The Amazing Pudding (1983–1993) was a British fan magazine devoted to Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, and the solo careers of other Pink Floyd band members, including Syd Barrett. It was seen as being the main fanzine of Pink Floyd during the time of its publication. Journalist Stuart Maconie wrote about The Amazing Pudding as part of a feature in the April 1993 issue of Q.

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Simon Northwood

First Name Simon
Last Name Northwood
Born on February 12, 1968 (age 58)
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David Barclay

First Name David
Last Name Barclay
Born on October 27, 1934
Died on December 31, 2020 (aged 86)
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Geoffrey A 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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Jan Ravens

First Name Jan
Last Name Ravens
Born on May 14, 1958 (age 68)

Janet "Jan" Ravens is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers.

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Charlie Sheringham

First Name Charlie
Last Name Sheringham
Born on April 17, 1988 (age 38)

Charles Edward William Sheringham is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Dartford. He is the son of former England forward Teddy Sheringham.

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Roy M. Anderson

First Name Roy
Last Name Anderson
Born on April 12, 1947 (age 79)

Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson is a leading international authority on the epidemiology and control of infectious diseases. He is the author, with Robert May, of the most highly cited book in this field, entitled Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control. His early work was on the population ecology of infectious agents before focusing on the epidemiology and control of human infections. His published research includes studies of the major viral, bacterial and parasitic infections of humans, wildlife and livestock. This has included major studies on HIV, SARS, foot and mouth disease, bovine tuberculosis, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, influenza A, antibiotic resistant bacteria, the neglected tropical diseases and most recently Covid-19. Anderson is the author of over 650 peer-reviewed scientific articles with an h citation index of 125.

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Jeffrey Titford

Jeffrey William Titford
First Name Jeffrey
Last Name Titford
Born on October 24, 1933 (age 92)

Jeffrey William Titford is a British politician who served as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2000 until 2002. He served again as interim leader in September to November 2010, following the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2009.

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