List of Famous people born in United Kingdom

Michael Carter

First Name Michael
Last Name Carter
Born on June 29, 1947 (age 79)

Michael Carter is a Scottish actor of film, stage and television, known for portraying Gerald Bringsley in An American Werewolf in London, Von Thurnburg in The Illusionist and Bib Fortuna in the third instalment of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi.

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Michael Corby

First Name Michael
Last Name Corby
Born on July 3, 1951 (age 75)

Michael John Siddons-Corby aka Mike Corby is a former British guitarist and keyboardist who was one of the founders of the 1970s rock group The Babys and responsible for creating the band concept. Corby was forced out of the group by Producer Terry Ellis in 1978 during the recording of their third album Head First.

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Michael Culkin

First Name Michael
Last Name Culkin
Born on January 1, 2000 (age 26)
Born in United Kingdom

Michael Culkin is an Irish theatre, film, and television actor probably best known for his role as Judge Buller in the BBC drama Garrow's Law. He appeared as Rab Butler in the first two seasons of The Crown, in The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep, opposite Johnny Depp in Mortdecai and with Hugh Grant in A Very English Scandal playing the Conservative politician Reginald Maudling. He appeared in two seasons of Poldark as Horace Treneglos and will return in the fourth season. He has extensive BBC and ITV Television credits as well as work at the National Theatre and in the West End where he starred with Maggie Smith in Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van. He is unmarried and lives in Thaxted Essex, London and Norfolk with several dogs and a llama. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

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Roy Harper

First Name Roy
Last Name Harper
Born on June 12, 1941 (age 85)

Roy Harper is an English folk rock singer, songwriter and guitarist. He has released 32 albums across his 50-year career. As a musician, Harper is known for his distinctive fingerstyle playing and lengthy, lyrical, complex compositions, reflecting his love of jazz and the poet John Keats.

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Gregory Mairs

First Name Gregory
Last Name Mairs
Born on November 7, 1994 (age 31)

Gregory Mairs is a badminton player from England. He started playing badminton at the age of six in Weaverham Leisure Centre.

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Michael Geoghegan

First Name Michael
Last Name Geoghegan
Born on October 4, 1953 (age 72)

Michael Francis Geoghegan CBE is an international banking business executive, who served as the chief executive (CEO) of HSBC from 26 March 2006 to 31 December 2010. He joined HSBC in 1973 and had previously led the group's South American and European operations.

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Mark Dixon

First Name Mark
Last Name Dixon
Born on November 30, 1958 (age 67)

Mark Leslie James Dixon is a Monaco-based English billionaire businessman, best known as the founder of serviced office business Regus, renamed International Workplace group in 2016.

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Richard Herring

Richard Keith Herring
First Name Richard
Last Name Herring
Born on July 12, 1967 (age 59)

Richard Keith Herring is an English stand-up comedian, writer and ventriloquist whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring. He is described by The British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy".

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Arnold Pinnock

First Name Arnold
Last Name Pinnock
Born on December 10, 1967 (age 58)

Arnold Pinnock (born) is a Canadian actor who is perhaps best known for his appearance as Paul Greebie, Casey's guidance counselor, in Life with Derek.

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Peter Lilley

First Name Peter
Last Name Lilley
Born on August 23, 1943 (age 82)

Peter Bruce Lilley, Baron Lilley, PC is a British Conservative politician who was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1983 to 2017 representing the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden from 1997 and, prior to boundary changes, St Albans. He was a Cabinet minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, serving as Trade and Industry Secretary from July 1990 to April 1992, and as Social Security Secretary from April 1992 to May 1997, when he introduced Incapacity Benefit.

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