List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Adjoa Andoh
Adjoa Andoh is a British film, television, stage and radio actress. She is known on the UK stage for lead roles at the RSC, the National Theatre, the Royal Court Theatre and the Almeida Theatre. She is also a familiar face on British television, notably in two series of Doctor Who as companion Martha's mother Francine Jones; 90 episodes of the BBC's long-running medical drama Casualty as Staff Nurse Colette Griffiths ; and a year in the BBC's EastEnders. Andoh is the voice of the audio book versions of Alexander McCall Smith's series of No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency novels; she won "Audio Book of the Year" for the tenth novel in the series, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built.
Michele Dotrice
Michele Dotrice is an English actress, best known for her portrayal of Betty Spencer, the long-suffering wife of Frank Spencer, played by Michael Crawford, in the BBC sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, which ran from 1973 to 1978, and returned in 2016 for a special.
Tom Burke
Tom Burke is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Athos in the 2014–2016 BBC series The Musketeers, Dolokhov in the 2016 BBC literary-adaptation miniseries War & Peace, the eponymous character Cormoran Strike in the 2017 BBC series Strike, and Orson Welles in the 2020 film Mank.
Gregory Doran
Gregory Doran is an English director known for his Shakespearean work. The Sunday Times called him 'one of the great Shakespearians of his generation'.
Liam Smith
Liam Mark Smith is a British professional boxer. He held the WBO light-middleweight title from 2015 to 2016, and previously the British and Commonwealth light-middleweight titles between 2012 and 2015. Liam is the younger brother of Paul Smith and Stephen Smith, and the older brother of Callum Smith; all of whom are professional boxers.
Mark Phillips
Mark Anthony Peter Phillips is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman for Great Britain and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. He remains a leading figure in British equestrian circles, a noted eventing course designer, and a columnist for Horse & Hound magazine.
Ben Chilwell
Benjamin James Chilwell is an English professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Premier League club Chelsea and the England national team.
Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr.
Kenneth Franklin McKenzie Jr. is a United States Marine Corps general who currently serves as the 14th commander of the United States Central Command. He served as Director of the Joint Staff assuming the job on July 5, 2017 after having previously served for two years as Director of Strategic Plans and Policy (J-5) on the Joint Staff. He assumed his current assignment on March 28, 2019.
Ed Skrein
Edward George Skrein is an English actor, film director, screenwriter and rapper. He rose to international success with his music, before becoming known as an actor in independent films or television series. On the years that followed, he became known for portraying Daario Naharis in the third season of the television series Game of Thrones. Skrein later rose to greater recognition with portraying the villain Francis Freeman/Ajax in the superhero-comedy film Deadpool (2016).
James McCartney
James Louis McCartney is a British-American musician and songwriter. He is the only son of songwriter and former Beatle Paul McCartney. He has contributed to solo albums by his parents, including Flaming Pie (1997) and Driving Rain (2001) by Paul McCartney and Wide Prairie (1998) by Linda McCartney. He has released two EPs and two albums. His most recent, The Blackberry Train, was released on 6 May 2016.