List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Alex Brock

Alexander von Brockdorff
First Name Alex
Last Name Brock
Born on January 1, 1984 (age 42)

Alex Brock, is a British actor, film-maker and former British Army Officer. He has appeared in several high-profile TV dramas, including BBC One's Requiem, Channel 4's Baghdad Central and the final season of Homeland.

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Kevin Loader

First Name Kevin
Last Name Loader
Born on November 30, 1955 (age 70)

Kevin Loader is a British film and television producer. Since 1996, he and co-owner Roger Michell have run a London-based production company, Free Range Films, through which the pair have made several feature films directed by Michell, including The Mother, Enduring Love, Venus, Hyde Park on Hudson, and Le Week-end. Their most recent film is an adaptation by Michell of Daphne Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel. The company is also developing and producing film and television projects with other directors. Loader was awarded the Bafta for Best Television Serial in 2015 for The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.

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Eddie Butler

Edward Thomas Butler
First Name Eddie
Last Name Butler
Born on May 8, 1957
Died on September 15, 2022 (aged 65)

Edward Thomas Butler was a Welsh journalist, sports commentator, and Welsh rugby union player, who won 16 caps for the Wales team between 1980 and 1984 and scored 2 tries.

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Gwyneth Jones

First Name Gwyneth
Born on February 14, 1952 (age 74)

Gwyneth Jones is an English science fiction and fantasy writer and critic, and a young adult/children's writer under the pen name Ann Halam.

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Chips Hardy

First Name Chips
Born on January 23, 1950 (age 76)

Edward John "Chips" Hardy is an English screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and creative director. He and Elizabeth Ann, his wife, are the parents of actor Tom Hardy, with whom Hardy worked on BBC One's drama series Taboo, as the co-creator, a writer and a consulting producer.

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Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton

First Name Ann
Last Name Bolton
Born on July 2, 1947 (age 79)

Winifred Ann Taylor, Baroness Taylor of Bolton, PC is a British Labour Party politician, who was Minister for International Defence and Security, based at both the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, from October 2008 until 11 May 2010. She served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolton West from 1974 to 1983 and for Dewsbury from 1987 to 2005. After standing down she was appointed a life peeress in the House of Lords.

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Ian Stewart

First Name Ian
Last Name Stewart
Born on September 24, 1945 (age 80)

Ian Nicholas Stewart is an English mathematician and a popular-science and science-fiction writer. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick, England.

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Ben Wheatley

First Name Ben
Last Name Wheatley
Born on January 1, 1972 (age 54)

Benjamin Wheatley is an English filmmaker and screenwriter. Beginning his career in advertising, Wheatley first gained recognition and acclaim for his commercials and short films, before transitioning into feature films and television programmes. He is best known for his work in the thriller and horror genres, with his films frequently incorporating heavy elements of black comedy and satire. His best-known works include the psychological horror films Kill List and A Field in England, the J. G. Ballard adaptation High-Rise, and the action comedy Free Fire.

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Tony Brooks

Charles Anthony Standish Brooks
First Name Tony
Last Name Brooks
Born on February 25, 1932
Died on May 3, 2022 (aged 90)

Charles Anthony Standish Brooks is a British former racing driver from England also known as the "racing dentist". He participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 July 1956, achieving six wins, 10 podium finishes and 75 career points. He was third in the World Drivers' Championship in 1958 and second in 1959. He also scored the first win by a British driver in a British car in a Grand Prix since 1923, in 1955 driving a Connaught at Syracuse in a non-World Championship race.

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Paul Banks

First Name Paul
Last Name Banks
Born on May 3, 1978 (age 48)

Paul Julian Banks is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and DJ. He is best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and guitarist of the rock band Interpol. He released a solo album called Julian Plenti is... Skyscraper in 2009 under the name Julian Plenti, though his solo material is now recorded under his real name. As a singer, his voice lies in the baritone range.

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