List of Famous people born in United Kingdom
Marcus Ellis
Marcus Ellis is a British badminton player. He was the men's doubles champion in the 2016 English National Badminton Championships. Ellis and Chris Langridge won a bronze medal in the men's doubles at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, also gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. At the 2019 Minsk European Games, Ellis captured two gold medals; in the men's doubles with Langridge and in the mixed doubles event with Lauren Smith.
Sedef Kabaş
Sedef Kabaş Yirmibeşoğlu is a Turkish journalist and television presenter who has presented on various news channels in Turkey since 1997. In January 2022, she received international attention after she was arrested following a television interview in which she was alleged to have insulted Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Diana Clifton-Peach
Diana Cynthia Clifton-Peach is a British former competitive figure skater. She is a three-time British national champion in ladies' singles. Clifton-Peach narrowly missed the podium at the 1957 and 1958 European Championships, finishing fourth each year, and was fifth at the 1958 World Championships. She finished 18th at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Antony Cotton
Antony Cotton is an English actor and comedian, best known as Sean Tully in Coronation Street and as Alexander Perry in the original Queer as Folk series. In 2007, Cotton secured his own talk show titled That Antony Cotton Show. In March 2013, he won Let's Dance for Comic Relief.
Nathan Carter
Nathan Kane Tyrone Carter is an Irish country music singer based in the UK and Ireland. Carter has released nine studio albums and four live albums as of December 2017, five of which peaked at number one, and four live DVDs. He performs pop, Irish folk and country music and pioneered a Country and Irish revival with the massive popularity and commercial success of a 2012 cover of American country song "Wagon Wheel".
Jack Harris
Jack Harris is an English vocalist known for his work with the British progressive rock band, The Alan Parsons Project. He sang lead vocals on "Day After Day " on the album, I Robot (1977), and the (falsetto-like) single "Pyramania" taken from the Grammy nominated Pyramid (1978). Capable of singing in both high and low registers, Harris also sang backing vocals on the band's debut release Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976), including the deep voice alongside John Miles on their debut single "(The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether", as well as the choir-like voice behind Arthur Brown on "The Tell-Tale Heart".
Michael Platt
Michael Edward Platt is a British billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder and managing director of BlueCrest Capital Management, Europe's third-largest hedge-fund firm which he co-founded in 2000.
Glyn Watts
Glynn Robin "Glyn" Watts is a British former competitive ice dancer. With his skating partner, Hilary Green, he became the 1974 World silver medalist and a two-time European silver medalist. They represented Great Britain at the 1976 Winter Olympics, where they placed 7th.
Rebecca Hazlewood
Rebecca Jane Hazlewood is a British actress. She was born in Wales and grew up in the village of Kingswinford in the Black Country, West Midlands. She is of Anglo-Indian descent.
Jonathan Neil Morgan
Jonathan Neil Morgan is a Welsh male badminton player.