List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Alex Heffes

First Name Alex
Last Name Heffes
Born on September 2, 1971 (age 54)

Alex Heffes is a British film composer. His film scores include those for the BAFTA-winning Touching the Void, and Oscar-winning movies One Day in September, The Last King of Scotland, and Inside Job. Heffes was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score for his work on Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.

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John Shirley

First Name John
Last Name Shirley
Born on January 1, 2000 (age 26)
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Desmond Askew

First Name Desmond
Last Name Askew
Born on December 17, 1972 (age 53)

Desmond Askew is an English actor of film and television. In 1983 he had the lead role of 'naughty schoolboy' in the promo video of the Wham! single "Bad Boys". He has appeared in films such as Go (1999), Repli-Kate (2002), The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and Turistas (2006). He has appeared in episodic television on series such as Grange Hill, Las Vegas, Charmed, the short-lived Then Came You, as the recurring character Brody Davis on Roswell, and perhaps most famously as the titular adaptation of the 1987 children's series Simon and the Witch. He also voiced many minor characters in the 2009 video game Dragon Age Origins. He has recently voiced as CIA Nerd in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.

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Scott Fitzgerald

First Name Scott
Last Name Fitzgerald
Born on April 28, 1948 (age 78)

Scott Fitzgerald, is a Scottish singer and musical actor, who experienced international music chart success in the 1970s and later represented the UK at the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest.

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Graham Faulkner

First Name Graham
Last Name Faulkner
Born on September 26, 1947 (age 78)

Graham Faulkner is a former British actor.

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Nick Griffin

First Name Nick
Last Name Griffin
Born on March 1, 1959 (age 67)

Nicholas John Griffin is a British politician who represented North West England as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2014. He served as chairman and then president of the far-right British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to 2014, when he was expelled from the party.

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John Arnold

First Name John
Last Name Arnold
Born on June 12, 1953 (age 73)

John Stanley Kenneth Arnold is the eleventh Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford. He was formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster and held the titular see of Lindisfarne. He additionally serves as chairman of the Oxford and Cambridge Catholic Education Board.

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Glenn Brown

First Name Glenn
Last Name Brown
Born on January 1, 1966 (age 60)

Glenn Brown is a British artist. He is known for the use of appropriation in his paintings. Starting with reproductions from other artists' works, Glenn Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position, orientation, height and width relationship, mood and/or size. Despite these changes, he has occasionally been accused of plagiarism.

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Natasha Cooper

First Name Natasha
Last Name Cooper
Born on November 30, 1950 (age 75)

Natasha J. Cooper is an English crime fiction writer.

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John McLaughlin

First Name John
Last Name McLaughlin
Born on January 4, 1942 (age 84)

John McLaughlin is an English guitarist, bandleader, and composer. A pioneer of jazz fusion, his music combines elements of jazz with rock, world music, Indian classical music, Western classical music, flamenco, and blues. After contributing to several key British groups of the early 1960s, McLaughlin made Extrapolation, his first album as a bandleader, in 1969. He then moved to the U.S., where he played with Tony Williams's group Lifetime and then with Miles Davis on his electric jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, and On the Corner. His 1970s electric band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, performed a technically virtuosic and complex style of music that fused electric jazz and rock with Indian influences.

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