Famous people from the United Kingdom
The most-searched people from the United Kingdom right now, with the latest news on each.
Lee Child
British thriller writer (born 1954)
1.29K daily views
Ian Watkins
Welsh musician and child sex offender (1977–2025)
2.03K daily views
Richard Dawkins
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)
2.02K daily views
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
1.93K daily views
Billy Connolly
Scottish actor and comedian
2.11K daily views
Charlotte Gainsbourg
French and British actress and singer (born 1971)
2.07K daily views
Naomie Harris
British actress
2.4K daily views
Jim Broadbent
English actor (born 1949)
2.25K daily views
Rupert Everett
British actor
1.96K daily views
Nicollette Sheridan
English-born American actress
2.2K daily views
Christopher Eccleston
English actor (born 1964)
1.75K daily views
Alex Pettyfer
English actor and model
1.5K daily views
Alex Garland
Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author and filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).
2.07K daily views
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
1.38K daily views
Beatrix Potter
English writer and illustrator (1866–1943)
1.33K daily views
Jane Birkin
British actress and singer (1946–2023)
2.18K daily views
Charlotte Rampling
British actress (born 1946)
2.15K daily views
Gordon Brown
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010
1.41K daily views
Alan Moore
British comic book author (born 1953)
1.31K daily views
Ioan Gruffudd
Welsh actor (born 1973)
1.99K daily views
Calum Scott
English singer and songwriter (born 1988)
1.34K daily views
Theresa May
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019
1.37K daily views
Kelly Osbourne
British singer and actress
1.63K daily views
Nathalie Emmanuel
British actress (born 1989)
1.47K daily views