List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Pen Densham
Pen Densham is a British–Canadian film and television producer, writer, director, author and photographer, known for writing and producing films such as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and television revivals of The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone, as well as writing, producing and directing MGM's Moll Flanders.
Graham Jones
Graham Jones is a former professional English road racing cyclist from Manchester, England. He rode in the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia. He is often described as one of the classiest riders that Britain has ever produced, but his career was hindered by being over raced in his early days, and by injury in his later days. He is one of the few English-speaking riders to have stood on the podium of the Flanders Classics Het Volk.
Darren Peacock
Darren Peacock is an English football manager and former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. From 2013 to 2015, he was the manager of Northern Premier League Division One North club Lancaster City.
Michael Langrish
Michael Laurence Langrish is a retired English Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Exeter from 2000 to 2013.
Mark Williams
Mark Williams is an English actor, screenwriter and presenter. He first achieved widespread recognition as one of the central performers in the popular BBC sketch show The Fast Show. His film roles include Horace in the 1996 adaptation of 101 Dalmatians and Arthur Weasley in seven of the Harry Potter films. He made recurring appearances as Brian Williams in the BBC television series Doctor Who and as Olaf Petersen in Red Dwarf. Since 2013, Williams has portrayed the title character in the long-running BBC series loosely based on the Father Brown short stories by G. K. Chesterton.
Sarah Linda
Sarah Michelle Linda is a British actress and model, known for her work in television, film and commercials. She had a minor role in the 2011 film adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as well as major roles in the independent films D.One and Sparrow. She also appeared in the films 4.3.2.1 and The Boat That Rocked, as well as an appearance as a bar girl in an episode of the mini-series Demons.
Ron Barber
Ronald Sylvester Barber is an American politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2012 to 2015. Barber, a member of the Democratic Party from Arizona, served as district director for U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords before Giffords resigned her seat due to the severe injuries she sustained in an assassination attempt, during which Barber was also injured. He won the Democratic nomination for the special election to finish Giffords's term and was sworn into office on June 19, 2012.
Ken Owen
Kenneth Malcolm Owen is an English drummer. He was born in Billinge, and grew up in Gayton, Merseyside. He is best known as one of the founding members of Carcass, for which he also handled some of the vocals. After the band broke up in 1995, he started Blackstar, along with two other Carcass members. In February 1999, he suffered a brain haemorrhage at home and spent ten months in a hospital slowly emerging from a coma, making it impossible at the time for him to continue playing drums. More recently, he has started playing drums again, but mostly makes music using the computer software program Reason.
Paul Arthurs
Paul Benjamin Arthurs, also known as Bonehead, is an English musician. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist, occasional keyboardist, and co-founder of the rock band Oasis.
Ian Lavery
Ian Lavery is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wansbeck since 2010. He served as the Chair of the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn from 2017 to 2020 and was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 2002 to 2010.