List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Sarah Douglas
Sarah Douglas is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the Kryptonian supervillain Ursa in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), and Jinda Kol Rozz in one episode of Supergirl in 2018.
Michael Howard
Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne,, is a British politician who served as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005. He previously held cabinet positions in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment and Home Secretary.
Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold, OBE is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Arnold has also directed four episodes of the Prime Video series Transparent, as well as all seven episodes of the second season of the HBO series Big Little Lies.
Geraldine McCaughrean
Geraldine McCaughrean is a British children's novelist. She has written more than 170 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet (2004), the official sequel to Peter Pan commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the holder of Peter Pan's copyright. Her work has been translated into 44 languages worldwide. She has received the Carnegie Medal twice and the Michael L. Printz Award among others.
John Chalmers
John Chalmers, QHC is a minister of the Church of Scotland. From 2010-2017, he served as the Principal Clerk to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. In 2014, following the withdrawal of Angus Morrison on health grounds, he was nominated to be Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for 2014-15; he was duly formally elected as Moderator on the first day of the General Assembly's week-long annual session. He succeeded Lorna Hood as Moderator. After serving his one-year term, he was succeeded by Angus Morrison. He is a Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen - a member of the Ecclesiastical Household in Scotland.
Anthony McCall
Anthony McCall is a British-born New York based artist known for his ‘solid-light’ installations, a series that he began in 1973 with "Line Describing a Cone," in which a volumetric form composed of projected light slowly evolves in three-dimensional space.
Demi Rose
Demi Rose Mawby is an English model, former DJ, and social media celebrity. As of July 2022, she has over 19 million followers on Instagram.
Finbarr O'Reilly
Finbarr O'Reilly is an independent Irish/Canadian photographer. He was the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize exhibition photographer and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. He won the 2019 World Press Photo First Place prize in the Portraits category, and also won the premier World Press Photo of the Year award of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest in 2006. He has earned numerous other top industry awards from Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association. O'Reilly is the co-author with Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Shooting Ghosts, a joint memoir by a conflict photographer and U.S. Marine whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls. O'Reilly has been a Harvard Nieman Fellow (2012-2013), a Yale World Fellow (2015) an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2016), and a writer in residence at the Carey Institute for Global Good (2016).
Rachel Whiteread
Dame Rachel Whiteread is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993.
Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook is an English composer, and viola player.