List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Quinlan Terry
John Quinlan Terry CBE is a British architect. He was educated at Bryanston School and the Architectural Association. He was a pupil of architect Raymond Erith, with whom he formed the partnership Erith & Terry.
John M. Ball
Sir John Macleod Ball is a British mathematician and former Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He was the President of the International Mathematical Union from 2003–06 and a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
David Almond
David Almond FRSL is a British author who has written several novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
Peter Goddard
Peter Goddard is a British mathematical physicist who works in string theory and conformal field theory. Among his many contributions to these fields is the Goddard–Thorn theorem.
Merlin Holland
Christopher Merlin Vyvyan Holland is a biographer and editor. He is the only grandchild of Oscar Wilde, whose life he has researched and written about extensively.
Harry Hylton-Foster
Sir Harry Braustyn Hylton Hylton-Foster, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1950 until his death. He was also the Speaker of the House of Commons for the final six years of his life.
Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is an English-American author and entrepreneur. He was with The Economist for seven years before joining WIRED magazine in 2001, where he was the editor-in-chief until 2012. He is known for his 2004 article entitled "The Long Tail"; which he later expanded into the 2006 book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. He is the cofounder and current CEO of 3D Robotics, a drone manufacturing company.
Stuart McCall
Andrew Stuart Murray McCall is a professional football coach and former player. He played in a total of 763 league games and in 40 full international matches for Scotland during his playing career.
Chris Ofili
Christopher Ofili, is a British Turner Prize-winning painter who is best known for his paintings incorporating elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists. Since 2005, Ofili has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago, where he currently resides in Port of Spain. He also lives and works in London and Brooklyn.
Brian Burridge
Air Chief Marshal Sir Brian Kevin Burridge, is a retired Royal Air Force officer. A former Nimrod pilot, Burridge was in overall command of British forces under Operation Telic during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.