Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.

Babatunde Aleshe
British actor
Babatunde Aléshéis a British actor, comedian and writer. He is known for appearing on Celebrity Gogglebox, and the 22nd series of British television series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Caree...

Sarah Alexander
English actress
Sarah Alexanderis an English actress. She has appeared in British series including Armstrong and Miller, Smack the Pony, Coupling, The Worst Week of My Life, Green Wing, Marley's Ghosts and Jonathan C...

Oliver Alexander
English singer and actor
Oliver Alexander Thorntonis an English singer and actor. He rose to prominence as the lead singer of the pop band Years & Years who achieved two number one albums on the UK Albums Chart, a number one ...

Trent Alexander-arnold
English professional footballer
Trent John Alexander-Arnoldis an English professional footballer who plays primarily as a right back for Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team. Considered one of the best full-ba...

Victoria Alexandrina
Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria)was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven month...

Moeen Ali
English cricketer
Moeen Munir Aliis an English cricketer who serves as vice-captain for England in limited overs cricket and plays all formats of the game. In domestic cricket he represents Warwickshire, having previou...

Monica Ali
British writer
Monica Aliis a British writer of Bangladeshi and English descent. In 2003, she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut nov...

Thomas Allen
English comedian and actor
Thomas Paul Allenis an English comedian, actor, writer and presenter. In 2005, Allen won the So You Think You're Funny contest. Early life and education Allen attended Coopers School in Chislehurst, w...

Lily Allen
English singer-songwriter and actress
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen(born 2 May 1985) is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her music career began in 2005 when she m...

Heywood Allen
American filmmaker
Heywood Allenis an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades. Allen has received many accolades, including the most nominations (16) for the Academy Award for Be...

Baron Alli
British media entrepreneur and politician
Waheed Alli, Baron Alliis a British media entrepreneur and politician. He has held executive positions at several television production companies including the Endemol Shine Group, Carlton Television ...

Alexis Allister
Argentine professional footballer
Alexis Mac Allisteris an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the Argentina national team. Born to a footballing family, Mac Allister start...

Kirstie Allsopp
British television presenter
Kirstie Mary Allsoppis a British television presenter, best known as co-presenter of Channel 4 property shows including Location, Location, Location, Love It or List It UK, Relocation, Relocation and ...

Joaquim De Almeida
Portuguese actor
Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeidais a Portuguese actor. Almeida began his acting career in theatre during the 1980s, he started his film career appearing on the 1982 action film The Soldier...

Miguel Almiron
Paraguayan professional footballer
Miguel Ángel Almirón Rejalais a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or right winger for Premier League club Newcastle United and the Paraguay national team. Almirón...

Xabier Alonso
Spanish professional football manager
Xabier Alonso Olanois a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen. Regarded as one of the best midfielders of his gene...

Herb Alpert
American trumpeter
Herb Alpertis an American trumpeter who led Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Throughout his career, Alpert has recorded ...

Samuel Altman
CEO of OpenAI
Samuel Harris Altmanis an American entrepreneur and investor. He previously served as chief executive officer of OpenAI from 2019 to 2023 and as president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. He now ser...

Alessandro Alunni
Lawyer
Alessandro Alunni Braviis an Italian lawyer and manager, best known for being Managing Director of the Sauber Group of companies since 2022 and Team Representative of Alfa Romeo F1 team since 2023. Th...

Joseph Alwyn
English actor
Joseph Matthew Alwyn(born 21 February 1991) is an English actor. He made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, and has since pla...