List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Jonathan Powell
Jonathan Leslie Powell is a former British television producer and executive. His senior positions in television included serving as the Head of BBC Drama Series and Serials and Controller of BBC1. He later became a professor and head of department of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Adam Hall
Adam Hall is a Scottish badminton player. He was the bronze medalist at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event with his partner Alexander Dunn. He competed at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
John Castle
John Michael Frederick Castle is a retired English actor. He is best known for his film and television work, most notably playing Bill in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966), and Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter (1968). His other significant credits include Man of La Mancha (1972) and RoboCop 3 (1993).
Richard Greatrex
Richard Greatrex is an English cinematographer. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Shakespeare in Love (1998). Other films shot by Greatrex include Mrs Brown (1997), A Knight's Tale (2001), and The Upside of Anger (2005). He has won one BAFTA Award, along with three additional nominations.
Jim McLaughlin
James Christopher McLaughlin is a Northern Irish former footballer and was later a football manager in the League of Ireland.
Tom Southam
Tom Southam is a British former competitive cyclist from Penzance, Cornwall who competed professionally between 2003 and 2011. He represented Great Britain in five World Championships and rode in several UCI ProTour events. Southam currently works as a directeur sportif for World Tour team EF Pro Cycling.
Mark Cooksey
Mark Cooksey is a British video game musician, best known for his work on the Commodore 64, most notably composing the music for the platform game Ghosts'n Goblins. He was employed by the UK video game developer and publisher Elite Systems.
Miles Kane
Miles Peter Kane is an English musician, best known as a solo artist and the co-frontman of the Last Shadow Puppets. He was also the former frontman of the Rascals, before the band announced their break-up in August 2009.
Ida Random
Ida Random is an American production designer. She was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Rain Man.
Ray Austin
Raymond Austin, Baron DeVere-Austin of Delvin is an English television and film director, television writer, novelist and former stunt performer and actor who has worked in both the United Kingdom and the United States. He served as director on episodes of some 50 programmes between 1968 and 1998.