List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Mark Allen
Mark Allen is a Northern Irish professional snooker player. He won the World Amateur Championship in 2004. The following year he entered the Main Tour and took only three seasons to reach the elite Top 16. As a prolific break-builder, Allen has compiled more than 450 century breaks in professional competition.
Yazz
Yazz is a British pop singer who remains best known for her 1988 UK number one single "The Only Way Is Up". Some of her records are credited to Yazz and The Plastic Population.
Kalvin Phillips
Kalvin Mark Phillips is an English professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Leeds United and the England national team. He plays mainly as a defensive midfielder and deep-lying playmaker but can also play as a centre-back.
Hannah Fry
Hannah Fry is a mathematician, author, lecturer, radio and television presenter, podcaster and public speaker. She studies the patterns of human behaviour, such as interpersonal relationships and dating, and how mathematics can apply to them. Fry delivered the 2019 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.
Claudia Jessie
Claudia Jessie Peyton is an English actress. She is known for her television roles as Annie Taylor in the third BBC One series of WPC 56, Amelia Sedley in the ITV series Vanity Fair, Lucy in the Dave sitcom Porters, and Eloise in the Netflix series Bridgerton.
Hal Robson-Kanu
Thomas Henry Alex "Hal" Robson-Kanu is a professional footballer who plays as a winger for West Bromwich Albion and the Wales national team. Although he initially played primarily on the wing, he has also been used as a forward, including during Wales' run to the semi-finals of UEFA Euro 2016.
FKA Twigs
Tahliah Debrett Barnett, known professionally as FKA twigs, is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. Born and raised in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, she became a backup dancer after moving to South London at age 17. She made her musical debut with the extended plays EP1 (2012) and EP2 (2013).
Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds is an English television presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, and businessman. Edmonds first became known as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg before moving to BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presented various radio shows and light-entertainment television programmes across 50 years, originally working for the BBC, later Sky UK and Channel 4. His television work includes Top of the Pops (1972–1978), Multi-Coloured Swap Shop (1976–1982), Top Gear (1979–1980), The Late Late Breakfast Show (1982–1986), Telly Addicts, Noel's Saturday Roadshow (1988–1990), Noel's House Party (1991–1999), and Deal or No Deal (2005–2016).
Roy Hodgson
Roy Hodgson is an English professional football manager and former player who is the manager of Premier League club Crystal Palace. He has managed 16 different teams in eight countries, beginning in Sweden with Halmstads BK in the 1976 season. He later guided the Switzerland national team to the last 16 of the 1994 World Cup and qualification for Euro 1996; Switzerland had not qualified for a major tournament since the 1960s. From 2006 to 2007, he managed the Finland national team, guiding them to their highest-ever FIFA ranking of 33rd place and coming close to qualifying for a major tournament for the first time in their history. He managed the England national team from May 2012 to June 2016. Other clubs that Hodgson has managed include Inter Milan, Blackburn Rovers, Malmö FF, Grasshoppers, FC Copenhagen, Udinese, Fulham, Liverpool and West Bromwich Albion.
Gary Stevens
Gary Michael Stevens is an English physiotherapist and retired footballer who played as a right back.