Famous people from the United Kingdom

Katie Leung

Scottish actress

Ian McDiarmid

Scottish actor and stage director

Lashana Lynch

British actress

Richard E. Grant

British-Swazi actor

Stephen Graham

English actor (born 1973)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

British singer (born 1979)

Dominic Calvert-Lewin

English association football player (born 1997)

Robbie Fowler

English association football player and manager

Jane Leeves

Jane Elizabeth Leeves is an English actress, best known for her role as Daphne Moon on the NBC sitcom Frasier (1993–2004), for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards. She also played Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland.

Christian Horner

Christian Edward Johnston Horner is a British former motorsport executive and former racing driver. From 2005 to 2025, Horner served as team principal and CEO of Red Bull in Formula One, winning six World Constructors' Championship titles between 2010 and 2023.

Alexei Sayle

Alexei David Sayle is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th-greatest stand-up comic of all time on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007. In an updated 2010 poll he came 72nd.

Stuart Pearce

Stuart Pearce is an English professional football manager and former player, who was most recently a first-team coach for Premier League club West Ham United. He was nicknamed "Psycho" for his unforgiving style of play. In addition, he is one of the few players to have made over 1,000 career appearances.

Kelly Cates

Kelly Cates is a British sports broadcaster who has worked for Sky Sports, BBC Sport and ESPN.

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Mark Chapman (broadcaster)

Andrew Mark Chapman is a British television and radio sports presenter. He is BBC Sport's chief rugby league presenter, fronting the BBC's coverage of the Rugby League World Cup and RFL Challenge Cup matches. He is also co-lead presenter of BBC football coverage programme Match of the Day, following the departure of Gary Lineker, having previously presented Match of the Day 2 during Lineker's time at the BBC. He is also involved in Sky Sports's coverage of the Premier League and the EFL Cup.

Mary Berry

Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunnings is an English food writer, chef, baker and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering at college. She then moved to France at the age of 22 to study at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs.

Chris Sutton

Christopher Roy Sutton is an English former professional football player and manager. He later became a pundit, commentator and presenter of football coverage on television and radio.

Gavin Williamson

Sir Gavin Alexander Williamson is a British politician who served in various Cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak between 2016 and 2022. A member of the Conservative Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, formerly South Staffordshire, since 2010. Williamson previously served as Government Chief Whip from 2016 to 2017 and Secretary of State for Defence from 2017 to 2019 under May, as Secretary of Sta...

Monica Dolan

Monica Margaret Dolan is an English actress. She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Rosemary West in Appropriate Adult (2011) and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for All About Eve in 2019.

Lucy Bronze

Lucia Roberta Tough Bronze is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Women's Super League club Chelsea and the England women's national team. She has previously played for Sunderland, Everton, Liverpool, Lyon, Manchester City and Barcelona, as well as North Carolina at college level in the United States and Great Britain at the Olympics. Bronze has won a total of five Champions League titles, three with Lyon and two with Barcelona; four Women's Super League titles, w...

Romesh Ranganathan

Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan is a British comedian, actor, and presenter. His style of comedy is deadpan and often self-deprecating. His comedy often focuses on his self-defined British "coconut" identity, credited to his upbringing by his mother Shanthi Ranganathan.

Prue Leith

Dame Prudence Margaret Leith is a South African and British restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer, businesswoman, television personality, novelist, chef, and former university chancellor.

Oliver Stark

Oliver Leon Jones, known professionally as Oliver Stark, is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Evan "Buck" Buckley in 9-1-1 on Fox/ABC, and as Ryder in AMC's martial arts-based drama Into the Badlands.

James Maddison

James Daniel Maddison is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.

Martin O'Neill

Northern Irish association football player and manager