United Kingdom

This page lists 175,809 biographies of united kingdoms, covering lives from 50 BC to 2023. Featuring A. V. Dicey, Aaron Klug and Adam Sedgwick. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People of this nationality

Stanley Saville

1889 – 1966

cricketer

Sophia Gorham

1881 – 1969

boat racer

Amy Bagshaw

b. 1988

artistic gymnast

Nona Maria Stevenson Bellairs

1824 – 1897

writer

Arthur Charles Evans

1916 – 2011

writer

Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany

1939 – 2011

painter

Tommy Lewis

1873 – 1962

trade unionist

George Ralph Mines

1886 – 1914

electrophysiologist

Frederick Thomas Penton

1851 – 1929

politician

George Walton

1863 – 1921

cricketer

David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

b. 1938

politician

Roger Wrightson

1939 – 1986

cricketer

Harold Denham

1872 – 1946

cricketer

Adam Marriott

b. 1991

association football player

Matthew Dryden

1842 – 1890

songwriter

Willie Young

b. 1956

association football player

Elliott Leyton

1939 – 2022

anthropologist

Alexander Rankin Dunlop

1868 – 1946

E. J. Mishan

1917 – 2014

economist

Nitin Kundra

actor

Octavius Winslow

1808 – 1878

theologian

Sir William Crossley, 1st Baronet

1844 – 1911

politician

Richard Stott

1943 – 2007

journalist

Mya-Lecia Naylor

2002 – 2019

actor

Glyn Davies

1932 – 2013

association football player

Peter Hawkins

b. 1978

association football player

John Douglas Swales

1935 – 2000

cardiologist

John Walden

1925 – 2013

justice of the peace

Grant Morrow

b. 1970

association football player

Ronnie Le Drew

1947 – 2026

marionetteist

Gertrude Coghlan

1876 – 1952

actor

Robert Needham Philips

1815 – 1890

politician

E. C. Large

1902 – 1976

writer

Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

1837 – 1919

writer

Tommy Frame

1902 – 1988

association football player

Maurice Roberts

b. 1938

editor

Ollie Devoto

b. 1993

rugby union player

Gerald FitzGibbon

1837 – 1909

judge

John Edward Parkinson

1955 – 2004

writer

Alice Mumford

b. 1965

painter

Mark Hovell

1888 – 1916

historian

Benjamin Thomas Williams

1832 – 1890

judge

Augustus Buckland

1857 – 1942

Anglican priest

Lauren Briggs

b. 1979

squash player

Alan Keen

1937 – 2011

politician

J. Spencer Trimingham

1904 – 1987

academic

Brian Duncan Shaw

1898 – 1999

chemist

Henry R. Rollin

1911 – 2014

Edward Hussey, of Scotney Castle

1749 – 1816

cricketer

William Keech

1872 – 1948

association football player

Charles Perceval, 7th Earl of Egmont

1845 – 1897

politician

Anthony Hulme

1910 – 2007

actor

Chris Needs

1954 – 2020

radio personality

Teddy Rothwell

1917 – 2000

association football player

Derek Wood

b. 1959

association football player

Greg Miskiw

1949 – 2021

journalist

Jim Mullen

b. 1970

businessperson

Dave Akam

b. 1960

sport cyclist

Thomas Keen

b. 2001

athlete

Sir Henry Dudley, 1st Baronet

1745 – 1824

justice of the peace

Ronald Gordon

1927 – 2015

politician

Tim Woolcock

b. 1952

painter

George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon

1735 – 1813

politician

David Armitage Bannerman

1886 – 1979

ornithologist

Robert Meadmore

singer

Sir Austin Hudson, 1st Baronet

1897 – 1956

politician

Antony Costa

b. 1981

actor

Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

1757 – 1833

politician

Ernest Payne

1884 – 1961

association football player

William D. Clark

1916 – 1985

economist

Benjamin Caesar

1797 – 1867

cricketer

Fay Holden

1893 – 1973

stage actor

Keith Biles

b. 1901

politician

Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet

1815 – 1898

physician

William Fitz Alan, 1st Lord of Oswestry and Clun

1154 – 1210

Frederick Pratten

1904 – 1967

cricketer

Mark Pizey

1899 – 1993

naval officer

Steve Walsh

b. 1964

association football player

Luke Jermay

b. 1985

magician

Phil Starbuck

b. 1968

association football player

Johan Steyn, Baron Steyn

1932 – 2017

politician

Giles Ramsay

b. 2000

theatre director

George Robert Crotch

1842 – 1874

entomologist

William Smelt

military officer

John B. Glen

b. 1940

veterinarian

Paddy Ashdown

1941 – 2018

politician

Agnes Guppy-Volckman

1838 – 1917

spiritual medium

Ben Spoor

1878 – 1928

politician

Peter Cundy

1916 – 2005

William Beckford

1709 – 1770

politician

Neil Sykes

b. 1974

association football player

James Thomas Hooper

1897 – 1971

collector

Simon Dalrymple

b. 1983

cricketer

Snakefinger

1949 – 1987

guitarist

William Cowper

1666 – 1709

surgeon

Sam Greenwood

b. 2002

association football player

Martin Lee

1946 – 2024

singer

Alex Bruce

b. 1998

association football player

William James West

1793 – 1848

surgeon

Michael McCann

b. 1964

politician