List of Famous people named Neil

Neil Jason Shipperley is an English former professional footballer who played as a forward in the Premier League and Football League from 1992 to 2007.

Neil Leonard Dula Etheridge is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Championship club Birmingham City and the Philippines national team. He joined the Fulham Academy after three years as a trainee at Chelsea and made his debut for Fulham in the UEFA Europa League against Danish club Odense Boldklub, though he never played in a league match with the club. While with Fulham from 2006 until 2014 he was loaned to various lower tier clubs; Leatherhead, Charlton Athletic, Bristol Rovers, and Crewe Alexandra.

Neil Bhatt is an Indian television actor known for portraying the role of IPS Virat Chavan in Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin, IPS Zakir Siddiqui in Diya Aur Bati Hum and Ranveer Singh Vaghela in Roop - Mard Ka Naya Swaroop.

Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a British politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995, first for Bedwellty and then for Islwyn. He was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992, and Vice-President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.

Neil Marshall is a British film and television director, editor, producer, and screenwriter. He directed the horror films Dog Soldiers (2002) and The Descent (2005), the science fiction action film Doomsday (2008), the historical war film Centurion (2010), the superhero action film Hellboy (2019), and the adventure horror film The Reckoning (2020).

Neil Critchley is an English former footballer who played in the Football League First Division for Crewe Alexandra. He is now the head coach of Blackpool, having left his post as Liverpool's under-23s manager on 2 March 2020.

Neil Patrick Jordan is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer. His first book, Night in Tunisia, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979. He won an Academy Award for The Crying Game (1992). He has also won three Irish Film and Television Awards, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for The Butcher Boy (1997).

Neil Alexander Danns is a professional footballer who most recently played as a midfielder for F.C. Halifax Town and the Guyana national team. He began his career in 2000 as a trainee at Blackburn Rovers and subsequently played for Colchester United, Birmingham City, Crystal Palace, Leicester City and Bolton Wanderers and Bury. He became a free agent after Bury were expelled from the Football League, and joined Tranmere Rovers in September 2019 until the end of the season.

Neil Fachie MBE is a Scottish Paralympic multiple sports athlete competing in events for individuals with a visual impairment. Fachie has entered two Paralympics, as a sprinter in the 2008 Games in Beijing and as a tandem cyclist in London 2012. In London he won the gold medal in the Men's individual 1 km time trial and silver in the individual sprint, both with Barney Storey as his sighted pilot.

Neil Wallington is a former firefighter who served in the London Fire Brigade and wrote about his experiences in the 1979 book Fireman! A personal account. The book includes one chapter about the Worsley Hotel fire which claimed the lives of seven people including one firefighter. He subsequently went on to rise through the ranks of the fire service to become the Chief Officer of Devon Fire and Rescue Service, and has written several books about firefighting and the fire service.