Famous people from the United Kingdom
The most-searched people from the United Kingdom right now, with the latest news on each.
Gareth Ainsworth
Gareth Ainsworth is an English professional former player and football manager who is the manager of EFL League Two club Gillingham.
Chris Cohen (footballer)
Christopher David Cohen is an English former professional footballer and co-head coach at EFL Championship club Lincoln City with Tom Shaw.
Hamza Choudhury
Hamza Dewan Choudhury is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder or right-back for EFL Championship club Sheffield United. Born in England, and a former English youth international, he represents the Bangladesh national football team.
Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux is a British and American journalist, broadcaster, documentarian and author. He has received three British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award.
Dick Campbell (footballer, born 1953)
Richard Menzies Campbell is a Scottish football manager and former player, who manages East Fife.
Joe Davis
Joseph Davis was an English professional snooker and billiards player. He was the dominant figure in snooker from the 1920s to the 1950s, and has been credited with inventing aspects of the way the game is now played, such as break-building. He drove the creation of the World Snooker Championship by persuading the Billiards Association and Control Council to recognise an official professional snooker championship in 1927. Davis won the first 15 world championships from 1927 to 1946, and he is...
Morgana Robinson
Morgana Robinson is an Australian comedian, impressionist, writer and actress. She has appeared in her comedy sketch programme The Morgana Show, Morgana Robinson's The Agency, House of Fools and Very Important People.
David Bellamy
David James Bellamy was an English academic, botanist, television presenter, author, and prominent environmental campaigner in the UK and globally. His distinctive, energetic style of presenting became well known to UK television audiences in the 1970s and 1980s. Later in life, he made sceptical statements about climate science.
Steve Borthwick
Stephen William Borthwick is an English rugby union coach and former player, who is currently the head coach of the England national team. As a player, he played as a lock for Bath and Saracens. At international level, he played for England 57 times from his debut in 2001; he served as captain from 2008, until he was dropped from the side in 2010.
John Healey
John Healey is a British politician who has served as Chancellor of the Exchequer under prime minister Andy Burnham since 20 July 2026. He previously served as Secretary of State for Defence under Keir Starmer from 2024 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, formerly Wentworth and Wentworth and Dearne, since 1997. He previously held various junior ministerial positions under prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown fro...
Sarah Pochin
Sarah Joanne Pochin is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runcorn and Helsby since a by-election in May 2025. She is Reform UK’s first female MP. She was previously the Mayor of Cheshire East and a local councillor, as well as a justice of the peace (JP).
John Swinney
John Ramsay Swinney is a Scottish politician who has served as First Minister of Scotland since 2024. Swinney has served as Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2024, and previously between 2000 and 2004. He has served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Perthshire North, previously North Tayside, since 1999, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tayside from 1997 to 2001.
Tom Rhys Harries
Tom Rhys Harries is a Welsh actor. His credits include White Lines (2020), Suspicion (2022), Jekyll and Hyde (2015), Unforgotten (2018), Britannia (2019), Hunky Dory (2011), Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018), The Gentlemen (2019), Sisi & I (2023), Kandahar (2023), How Kids Roll (2024), Doctor Who episode "Dot and Bubble" (2024), and Clayface (2026).
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
British politician (born 1946)
Matt Richardson
Matthew Jeffrey Richardson is an English comedian and broadcaster, known as a co-presenter on the ITV2 spin-off show The Xtra Factor with Caroline Flack in 2013. In 2016, Richardson became the drive time presenter on the digital radio station Virgin Radio UK. Richardson has also co-presented Celebrity Haunted Hotel Live and Celebrity Haunted Mansion with Christine Lampard on UKTV's W channel, and he competed in the thirteenth series of Dancing on Ice, as a replacement for Rufus Hound and was ...
Richard Tice
Richard James Sunley Tice is a British businessman and politician who is a Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness. He has served as Deputy Leader of Reform UK since 2024 and as the party's Business, Trade and Energy spokesperson since February 2026.
Lukas Nmecha
Lukas Okechukwu Nmecha is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Leeds United.
Jack Hinshelwood
Jack Luca Hinshelwood is an English professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the England under-21 national team.
Barbara Windsor
Dame Barbara Windsor was an English actress. She was known for her roles in the Carry On films and for playing Peggy Mitchell in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders. She joined the cast of EastEnders in 1994 and won the 1999 British Soap Award for Best Actress, before leaving the show in 2016.
Joe Swash
Joseph Adam Swash is a British actor and television presenter from London, best known for his role of Mickey Miller in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders and various presenting roles with ITV2. He won the eighth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2008 and the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice in 2020.
Kris Boyd
Kris Boyd is a Scottish former professional footballer currently working as a football pundit for Sky Sports.
Jimmy Carr
James Anthony Patrick Carr is a British and Irish comedian, presenter and writer. He is known for his rapid-fire deadpan delivery of one-liners and edgy, often controversial sense of dark humour. He began his comedy career in the late 1990s and rose to prominence for hosting the Channel 4 panel shows The Big Fat Quiz of the Year (2004–present), 8 Out of 10 Cats (2005–2021), and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (2012–present). Alongside his television work, Carr has established a successful car...
A. V. Bramble
Albert Victor Bramble (1884–1963) was an English actor and film director. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1914 and subsequently turned to directing and producing films. He died on 17 May 1963.
Caroline Flack
Caroline Louise Flack was an English television presenter. Flack grew up in Norfolk and took an interest in dancing and theatre while at school. She began her professional career as an actress, starring in the comedy sketch show Bo' Selecta! (2002), and went on to present various ITV2 shows including I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! (2009–2010) and The Xtra Factor (2011–2013).