British celebrities

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Julie Stevens Facts

Julie Stevens (born 20 December 1936) is an English actress, best known in Britain for her appearances on children’s television.

Mick Whitnall Facts

Mick Whitnall (born 7 November 1968, Doncaster, Yorkshire) is the English lead guitarist for Pete Doherty’s rock band, Babyshambles, replacing former guitarist Patrick Walden. He lived in South Africa for a time when he was a young boy while his fath

Barrington Patterson Facts

Barrington Renford Patterson (born 25 August 1965) is an English former kickboxer and mixed martial artist. At 18 stones, he competed in the super heavyweight division and once fought for a world IKF Kickboxing Championship. He is often referred to a

Emily Perry Facts

Patricia Emily Perry (28 June 1907 – 19 February 2008) was an English actress and dancer. Born in Torquay, Devon, England, she was best known for her recurring role as Madge Allsop, Dame Edna Everage’s long-suffering, silent “bridesmaid” from Palme

Leon Greene Facts

Leon Greene (born Lenard George Green, 1931 in West Ham) is an English opera singer and film actor.

Charles Kay Facts

Charles Kay (born Charles Piff, 31 August 1930) is an English actor.

Duke of Abercorn Facts

James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn, KG (born 4 July 1934) became Duke of Abercorn in the Peerage of Ireland on the death of his father in June 1979. The son of James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Mary Crichton (daughter of Lt.-Col

Jimmy McGovern Facts

Jimmy McGovern (born September 1949 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English screenwriter and producer. He created the television series Cracker (1993-1995), a popular and critical success in the UK, for which he received two Edgar Awards from the Mys

Bruce Forsyth Facts

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE (born 22 February 1928) is a British television presenter and entertainer whose career spans 75 years. In 2012, Guinness World Records recognised Forsyth as having the longest television career for a male entertai

Louisa Garrett Anderson Facts

Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson, CBE (28 July 1873 – 15 November 1943) was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Garrett

Anne Perry Facts

Anne Perry (born 28 October 1938 as Juliet Marion Hulme) is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. She was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend’s mother in 1954. Sh

Fred Hoyle Facts

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the “Big Bang”