Famous people from the United Kingdom

Lesley Manville

British actress (born 1956)

Craig David

British singer (born 1981)

Joe Allen

Welsh association football player

Marc Guéhi

Ivorian-English footballer (born 2000)

Matthew Upson

English association football player (born 1979)

Nathaniel Clyne

English association football player (born 1991)

Marc Albrighton

English association football player

Mark Tonderai

Mark Tonderai is a British-Zimbabwean entrepreneur, film director, writer, actor and former disc jockey. He is co-founder of the London-based production company Shona Productions with his wife Zoe Stewart. He directed the crime drama television series The Five which first aired in April 2016 on the Sky 1 channel.

Mustafa Suleyman

Mustafa Suleyman is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an AI company which was acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind, he co-founded Inflection AI, a machine learning and generative AI company, in 2022.

Tess Daly

Helen Elizabeth "Tess" Daly is an English television presenter and former model. She is best known for co-presenting the BBC One dancing competition show Strictly Come Dancing (2004–2025). She announced on 23 October 2025, that she would be leaving the show after 21 years, at the end of the current series and the recording of the Christmas Special.

Jason Watkins

Jason Peter Watkins is an English actor. He played the lead role in the two-part drama The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor. He has also played William Herrick in Being Human, Gavin Strong in Trollied, Simon Harwood in W1A, Gordon Shakespeare in the film series Nativity, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in Season 3 of The Crown and Detective Sergeant Dodds in McDonald & Dodds.

Paul Whitehouse

Paul Julian Whitehouse is a Welsh actor, comedian, presenter, and writer. He was one of the main stars of the BBC sketch comedy series The Fast Show and has starred with Harry Enfield in the shows Harry & Paul and Harry Enfield & Chums. He has appeared with Bob Mortimer in the BBC series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing and has also acted in films including Corpse Bride (2005), Alice in Wonderland (2010) and The Death of Stalin (2017).

Brandon Williams (footballer)

Brandon Paul Brian Williams is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender. Although he mainly plays as a left-back, he has also been used as a right-back.

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Miranda Hart

Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke, is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won three Royal Television Society awards, four British Comedy Awards and four BAFTA nominations for her self-driven semi-autobiographical BBC sitcom Miranda (2009–2015).

Russell Martin (footballer)

Russell Kenneth Alexander Martin is a professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of EFL League One club Leicester City. Born in England, he represented Scotland at international level.

Russell T Davies

Stephen Russell Davies, known professionally as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for being the original showrunner and head writer of the revival of the BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who, from 2005 to 2010 and 2023 to 2025. His other notable works include creating the series Queer as Folk (1999–2000), Bob & Rose (2001), The Second Coming (2003), Casanova (2005), Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood (2006–2011), The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007–2011), and...

James Weatherall

Sir James Lamb Weatherall was a senior Royal Navy officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic from 1989 to 1991 and then as Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps from 1992 to 2001.

Andrew Robertson (sprinter)

Andrew Robertson is an English sprinter.

Benjamin Cohen (journalist)

Benjamin Cohen is a British web developer, entrepreneur and online publisher. He became known for his internet enterprises as a teenager and his dispute with Apple over the domain "itunes.co.uk", and as the founder of the PinkNews website. From 2006 until 2012 he was technology correspondent for Channel 4 News in the UK. Cohen has a diagnosis of MS. He campaigns on gay and disabled rights. He is the chief executive of PinkNews, and regularly writes for the London Evening Standard.

Ella Toone

Ella Ann Toone is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Women's Super League club Manchester United and the England national team. She represented England from under-17 to under-21, scoring her first Euro goal against Spain in 2022, with another against Germany in the Euro 2022 final, helping the team to win the European Championship.

Curtis Jones (footballer, born 2001)

Curtis Julian Jones is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Serie A club Inter Milan and the England national team.

Tom Blyth

Tom Keir Blyth is an English actor. He took an interest in drama from a young age, studying acting at the Central Junior Television Workshop and at the Juilliard School. He had his first lead role in the film Scott and Sid (2018), and then portrayed Glen Byam Shaw in Benediction (2021) before starring as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). For his performance in the prison film Wasteman (2025), he earned a British Independent Film Award nomination. Hi...

Geordie Greep

Geordie Wade Greep is an English musician, and singer. From 2017 to 2024, he was the frontman and lead guitarist of the British rock band Black Midi, part of British rock music's Windmill scene.

John Hannah (actor)

John Hannah is a Scottish actor and narrator. He came to prominence in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role as Matthew. His other film appearances include Sliding Doors (1998), The Hurricane (1999), and The Mummy quadrilogy (1999–2027).