List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Tommy Gormley
Tommy Gormley is a Scottish film director and producer. He is known for his work on the genres of action, drama and science fiction. Gormley has produced or served as assistant director on films such as Star Trek and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
John Hough
John Hough is a British film and television director. He is primarily known for his suspense films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Twins of Evil (1971), The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Watcher in the Woods (1980), The Incubus (1982) and American Gothic (1988).
Laurence Rees
Laurence Rees is an English historian. He is a BAFTA winning historical documentary filmmaker and a British Book Award winning author of several books about Adolf Hitler, the Nazis and the atrocities committed, especially by the Nazis and the Soviets, during the 20th century. He is the former Head of BBC TV History Programmes.
Nancy Mackay
Nancy Mackay was a Canadian sprinter. Mackay won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
Sophia Rogan
Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones is a Scottish director and producer of film and television. His credits have included the World War II film Memphis Belle, the romantic comedy Doc Hollywood, the biographical drama This Boy's Life, the historical epic Rob Roy, the action thriller The Jackal, and the erotic thriller sequel Basic Instinct 2. He also helmed the Channel 4 miniseries World Without End.
David Jones
David Scott Jones is a Scottish video game programmer and entrepreneur who co-founded video game developers DMA Design in 1987, Realtime Worlds in 2002, and Cloudgine in 2012. Jones created Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, which both spawned many successful sequels. He also created the Crackdown franchise for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One consoles, and the open-ended massively multiplayer online game, APB: All Points Bulletin.
Pearse Doherty
Pearse Daniel Doherty is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2016 general election, and previously from 2010 to 2016 for the Donegal South-West constituency. He previously served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2007 to 2010.
Alan McGee
Alan McGee is a Scottish businessman and music industry executive. He has been a record label owner, musician, manager, and music blogger for The Guardian. He co-founded the independent Creation Records label, running it from 1983 until its closure in 1999.
Kenneth Erskine
Kenneth Erskine is a British serial killer who became known as The Stockwell Strangler. He committed the murders of 7-11 senior citizens in London between April and July 1986.