List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Marcus Murcutt AO is an Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia and is known to be very selective with his projects. Being the only Australian winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he is often referred to as Australia's most famous architect.
Edward Shearmur
Edward Shearmur is a British film composer. Born in London, England, at age 7 he sang in the boys' choir at Westminster Cathedral. Educated at Eton College, he studied at the Royal College of Music and went on to a scholarship at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. He worked as orchestration and conducting assistant to Michael Kamen on such films as Licence to Kill, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and the acclaimed Don Juan DeMarco) before scoring his first full-length feature film The Cement Garden which won the director's prize at the Berlin Film Festival. His first major feature score was that of The Wings of the Dove (1997). He has since scored a diverse range of popular films, including both Charlie's Angels outings, Cruel Intentions, Species II, and K-PAX.
John Bryan Taylor
John Bryan Taylor is a British physicist known for his contributions to plasma physics and their application in the field of fusion energy. Notable among these is the development of the "Taylor state", describing a minimum-energy configuration that conserves magnetic helicity. Another development was his work on the ballooning transformation, which describes the motion of plasma in toroidal (donut) configurations, which are used in the fusion field. Taylor has also made contributions to the theory of the Earth's Dynamo, including the Taylor constraint.
Sam Brown
Samantha Brown is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and record producer.
Tony Craig
Tony Andrew Craig is an English professional footballer who plays for Crawley Town as a central defender. He began his career at Millwall and made over 320 appearances across four spells with the club.
Robin Janvrin
Robin Berry Janvrin, Baron Janvrin, is a British courtier who was Private Secretary to Elizabeth II from February 1999 to September 2007.
Stephen Lord
Stephen Lord is an English actor probably best known for playing Jase Dyer in the BBC soap opera EastEnders between 2007 and 2008 and Dominic Meak in the Channel 4 comedy drama series, Shameless, between 2012 and 2013.
Anna Pinnock
Anna Pinnock is a set decorator. She has been nominated six times for an Academy Award for Art Direction or Production Design:
- Gosford Park (2001) – Nominated
- The Golden Compass (2007) – Nominated
- Life of Pi (2012) – Nominated
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) – Winner
- Into the Woods (2014) – Nominated
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) – Nominated
Sarah Springman
Sarah Marcella Springman, CBE, FREng is a British triathlete, civil engineer, and academic. She was educated in England and spent most of her recent career in Switzerland. She is currently the rector of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, also known as ETH Zurich.
Jonathan Israel
Jonathan Irvine Israel is a British writer and academic specialising in Dutch history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jews. Israel was appointed as Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, in January 2001. He was previously Professor of Dutch History and Institutions at the University College London.