List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Darren Sheridan
Darren Stephen Sheridan is an English former footballer and manager. As a player, Sheridan played as a centre midfielder. He had one spell as a player-manager, with Barrow, before managing Salford City.
Paul Goodison
Paul Martin Goodison MBE is an English Olympic Gold Medal winning sailor.
Nikki Harris
Nikki Louise Brammeier is an English former professional racing cyclist from Draycott, Derbyshire. She began cycling at five and has won championships in various disciplines. Brammeier has competed in international events including the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics and the Commonwealth Games. She won her first UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in 2015 at Cyclo-cross Namur.
Darrell Clarke
Darrell James Clarke is an English professional football manager and former player who played in the English Football League. He is the manager of League Two club Walsall.
James Marsh
James Marsh is a British film and documentary director best known for his work on Man on Wire, which won the 2008 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and The Theory of Everything, the multi-award-winning biopic of physicist Stephen Hawking released in 2014.
John Parish
John Parish is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer.
Michelle Featherstone
Dale Vince
Dale Vince, OBE is a British "green energy" industrialist. A former New Age traveller, he is the owner of the electricity company Ecotricity.
Laurie Johnson
Laurence Reginald Ward Johnson, is an English composer and bandleader who has written scores for dozens of film and television series and has been one of the most highly regarded arrangers of instrumental pop and swing music since the 1950s with works often serving as stock production music.
Arthur John Arberry
Arthur John Arberry FBA was a British orientalist. A scholar of Arabic, Persian, and Islamic studies, he was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. His English translation of the Qur'an, The Koran Interpreted, is popular amongst academics worldwide. In the Preface of The Koran Interpreted, A. J. Arberry quotes Marmaduke Pickthall, his predecessor, who also wrote a translation of the Quran, "It may be reasonably claimed that no Holy Scripture can be fairly presented by one who disbelieves its inspiration and its message; and this is the first English translation of the Koran by an Englishman who is a Muslim."