List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Adrian Moore
Adrian Moore is an electroacoustic music composer born January 1969 in Nottingham, UK, and currently living in Sheffield, UK. He is director of the University of Sheffield Sound Studios.
Edward Bond
Edward Bond is an English playwright, theatre director, poet, theorist and screenwriter. He is the author of some fifty plays, among them Saved (1965), the production of which was instrumental in the abolition of theatre censorship in the UK. Other well-received works include Narrow Road to the Deep North (1968), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981), and the War trilogy (1985). Bond is broadly considered one among the major living dramatists but he has always been and remains highly controversial because of the violence shown in his plays, the radicalism of his statements about modern theatre and society, and his theories on drama.
Adam Fogerty
Adam Heywood Fogerty is an English actor and former boxer and rugby league footballer. He is the son of rugby league footballer Terry Fogerty, who played in the 1960s and 1970s then coached in the 1980s.
Col Needham
Colin Needham is an English entrepreneur who is known as the founder and CEO of IMDb. He has been general manager of IMDb since its acquisition by Amazon in 1998.
Danny Cohen
Daniel Cohen, BSC is an English cinematographer. A member of the British Society of Cinematographers, he has worked on many feature films and television series, and is known for his collaborations with Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, Shane Meadows, and Lenny Abrahamson. He has worked with Hooper on five occasions: Longford (2006), John Adams (2008), The King's Speech (2010), Les Misérables (2012), and The Danish Girl (2015). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for The King's Speech, the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography for Les Miserables, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series for John Adams.
Peter Elliott
Peter Elliott is a former middle-distance runner from the United Kingdom. During his career, he won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1990 Commonwealth Games, the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 1988 Olympic Games, and the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 1987 World Championships.
Charlie Harper
Charlie Harper is a British singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead singer from the punk band UK Subs. Charlie Harper is reportedly a nephew of actor Cesar Romero.
Rupert Degas
Rupert Joel Degas is a British-Australian actor. He is best known for his voice work in animation and audiobooks. Since the 1980s, he has worked in film and television, theatre, video games, radio productions and podcasts, audiobooks and as a producer.
Patrick Godfrey
Patrick Lindesay Archibald Godfrey is an English actor of film, television and stage.
Carissa Turner
Carissa Turner is a Welsh badminton and Australian rules football player. She was part of the South Wales Universities team that finished as minor premiers in the 2020 AFL England National University League.