Famous people born in England

Claire Phillips is a British portrait artist, whose paintings generally have a social or political narrative. Her portraits of prisoners on death row and children rescued from slave labour have received wide media coverage.....
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Samantha Claire Taylor MBE is a former cricketer who represented England more than 150 times between 1998 and 2011. A top order batsman, Taylor was the first woman to be named a Wisden Cricketer of the Year. Along with Charlotte Edwards, she was the mainstay of Englands batting during the first decade of the 21st century, and played a key role in the teams two world titles in 2009.....
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Emma Jane Pooley is an elite English sportswoman. A former professional cyclist who specialised in time trials and hilly races at the highest level, she transferred her skills to endurance running, duathlon and triathlon, and is currently a professional triathlete, and the reigning double world champion in long distance duathlon.....
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Clayton James Hickman is a British scriptwriter, magazine editor, journalist and designer.....
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Aaron TaylorJohnson is an English actor, best known as the title character in the KickAss films and Quicksilver in Avengers Age of Ultron. He began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and The Illusionist . He then moved on to starring roles in Nowhere Boy, in which he played John Lennon KickAss and its sequel KickAss 2, in which he played the title character in the crime thriller film Savages and the monster movie Godzilla. Johnson played ....
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Louisa Rose Allen , better known by her stage name, Foxes, is an English singer and songwriter. Her vocals featured on Zedds 2012 single Clarity, which peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 and won a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording.....
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Ian Ronald Bell MBE is an English cricketer who plays international cricket for the England cricket team. He also plays county cricket for Warwickshire County Cricket Club. He is a righthanded highermiddle order batsman, described in The Times as an exquisite rapier, who is a very good cover driver on the off side. He is an occasional rightarm medium pace bowler and a slip fielder. He is also noted for his sharp reflexes and often fields in close catching positions. He has scored twentytwo Test....
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Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A., is an English hip hop recording artist, director, visual artist, activist, record producer, photographer, fashion designer and model. M.I.A. is a play on her own name and a reference to the acronym of Missing in Action. Her compositions combine elements of alternative, dance, electronic, hip hop and world music. M.I.A. began her career in 2000 as a visual artist, filmmaker and designer in west London before beginning her recordi....
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Francesca Jean Halsall is an English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympics, FINA world championships, and European championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. She competes primarily in freestyle and butterfly events.....
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Ian Usher is an English traveller, author and public speaker. He is best known for his 2008 life for sale listing on eBay following divorce from his wife, Laura.....
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Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist, author, columnist and politician. He was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Londons Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the 2015 general election. He is also the cofounder and chairman of Quilliam, a counterextremism think tank that seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists.....
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Benjamin Satterley is an English professional wrestler. He is currently signed to the American professional wrestling promotion WWE, where he performs under the ring name Neville, but is currently on hiatus due to injury. He previously wrestled in WWEs developmental territory NXT under the name Adrian Neville, and prior to that, competed on the independent scene under the ring name PAC. In NXT, he is the only twotime NXT Tag Team Champion, with his first reign being onehalf of the inaugural ch....
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Idrissa Akuna Idris Elba, OBE is an English actor, musician, voice actor, and DJ. He is best known for his portrayal of drug baron Russell Stringer Bell in the HBO series The Wire, Detective John Luther in the BBC One series Luther, and Nelson Mandela in the 2013 biographical film Mandela Long Walk to Freedom. He has been nominated five times for a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film, winning one, and was nominated four times for a Primetime Emmy Award.....
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Holly Marie Willoughby is an English television presenter and model, best known for her television work with ITV.....
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch CBE is an English actor and film producer who has performed in film, television, theatre and radio. The son of actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham, he graduated from the University of Manchester and continued his training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, obtaining a Master of Arts in Classical Acting. He first performed at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park in Shakespearean productions and has portrayed George Tesman in Richard Eyres rev....
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Alastair Nathan Cook, MBE is an English cricketer. A lefthanded opening batsman, he is the captain of the England Test team and former ODI captain, and plays county cricket for Essex. Cook played for Essexs Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003. He played in a variety of Englands youth teams from 2000 until his call up to the Test side in 2006. He normally fields at first slip.....
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Naomi Elaine Campbell is an English model. Recruited at the age of 15, she established herself among the top three most recognizable and indemand models of the late 1980s and the 1990s, and was one of six models of her generation declared supermodels by the fashion industry.....
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Naomi Ellen Watts is a British actress. She made her screen debut in the Australian drama film For Love Alone and then appeared in the Australian television series Hey Dad.. , Brides of Christ and Home and Away and alongside Nicole Kidman and Thandie Newton in the comingofage comedydrama film Flirting . After moving to America, Watts appeared in films, including Tank Girl , Children of the Corn IV The Gathering and Dangerous Beauty and had the lead role in the television series Sleepwalker....
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Magdalene Mary Magda Szubanski is an Englishborn Australian television and film actress, comedian and writer.....
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Estelle Fanta Swaray , simply known as Estelle, is a British singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress from West London, England. Estelle is known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including RampB, soul, reggae, grime, hip hop and dance. She has experienced mainstream success with the single American Boy featuring Kanye West, reaching number 1 in the United Kingdom and her collaboration with David Guetta in One Love.....
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