People

Remarkable people

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

Adrienne Bailon-houghton

Adrienne Bailon-houghton

American television personality

Date of Birth: 24 October 1983
Age: 42

Adrienne Eliza Bailon-Houghtonis an American television personality, singer, and actress. She is a former member of the girl groups 3LW and The Cheetah Girls. From 2013 to 2022, Bailon was a co-host o...

Matthew Bair

Matthew Bair

American singer

Date of Birth: 2 June 1987
Age: 38

Matthew Bairknown professionally asMatthew Komais an American singer, songwriter, DJ, and record producer. Songs written or co-written by Koma include "Spectrum", "Find You", and Grammy Award-winner "...

Jonathan Bairstow

Jonathan Bairstow

English cricketer

Date of Birth: 26 September 1989
Age: 36

Jonathan Marc Bairstowis an English cricketer who plays internationally for England in all formats. In domestic cricket, he represents Yorkshire, and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues, including...

Mark Baker

Mark Baker

English animator and producer

Date of Birth: 8 April 1959
Age: 67

Mark Bakeris an English animator and producer whose works include the Oscar-nominated short films The Hill Farm (1988), The Village (1993) and Jolly Roger (1998). He is also known for co-creating Pepp...

Sean Baker

Sean Baker

American filmmaker

Date of Birth: 26 February 1971
Age: 55

Sean Bakeris an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing independent feature films about the lives of marginalized people, especially immigrants and sex workers. His films include Take Out (...

Kenneth Baker

Kenneth Baker

English actor

Date of Birth: 24 August 1934
Age: 81

Kenneth George Bakerwas an English actor, comedian and musician. He portrayed the character R2-D2 in the Star Wars franchise and also appeared in The Elephant Man, Time Bandits, Willow, Flash Gordon, ...

Matthew Baker

Matthew Baker

British television presenter

Date of Birth: 23 December 1977
Age: 48

Matthew James Bakeris a British television presenter. He co-presented the children's television show Blue Peter from 1999 until 2006, BBC One's Countryfile since 2009 and The One Show from 2011 to 202...

Steven Baker

Steven Baker

British former politician

Date of Birth: 6 June 1971
Age: 54

Steven John Bakeris a British former politician who served as Minister of State for Northern Ireland between 2022 and 2024. He is a former Royal Air Force engineer, consultant and banker. A member of ...

Bakkavor

Bakkavor

Industry and Production

Bakkavör is an international food manufacturing company specialising in fresh prepared foods. The Group's head office is in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchan

Clare Balding

Clare Balding

English broadcast journalist and author

Date of Birth: 29 January 1971
Age: 55

Clare Victoria Baldingis an English broadcast journalist and author. She currently presents for BBC Sport, Channel 4 and BT Sport and formerly presented the religious programme Good Morning Sunday on ...

Justin Baldoni

Justin Baldoni

American actor and filmmaker

Date of Birth: 24 January 1984
Age: 42

Justin Louis Baldoniis an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for portraying Rafael Solano on The CW satirical romantic dramedy Jane the Virgin (2014–2019) as well as directing the films Fi...

Alexander III Baldwin

Alexander III Baldwin

American actor

Date of Birth: 3 April 1958
Age: 68

Alexander Rae Baldwin IIIis an American actor, comedian, and producer. In his early career, Baldwin played both leading and supporting roles in a variety of films such as Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (198...

Balenciaga

Balenciaga

Consumer goods

Balenciaga SA is a Spanish luxury fashion house currently headquartered in Paris. It designs, manufactures and markets ready-to-wear footwear, handbags, and accessories, and licenses its name and bran

Zoe Ball

Zoe Ball

British radio and television presenter

Date of Birth: 23 November 1970
Age: 55

Zoe Louise Ballis a British radio and television presenter. She was the first female host of both Radio 1 Breakfast and The Radio 2 Breakfast Show for the BBC, and presented the 1990s children's show ...

Farrow & Ball

Farrow & Ball

Industry and Production

Farrow & Ball is a British manufacturer of paints and wallpapers largely based upon historic colour palettes and archives. The company is particularly well known for the unusual names of its produ

Shirley Ballas

Shirley Ballas

English ballroom dancer

Date of Birth: 6 September 1960
Age: 65

Shirley Annette Ballasis an English ballroom dancer, dance teacher, and dance adjudicator. She specialises in the International Latin division, where she won several championship titles which earned h...

Edward Balls

Edward Balls

British broadcaster

Date of Birth: 25 February 1967
Age: 59

Edward Michael Ballsis a British broadcaster, economist and former politician who served as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families from 2007 to 2010, and as Shadow Chancellor of the Exc...

Anthony Bamford

Anthony Bamford

Chairman of JCB company

Date of Birth: 23 February 2023
Age: 3

Anthony Paul Bamford, Baron Bamford, DLis a British billionaire businessman who is chairman of J. C. Bamford (JCB). He succeeded his father, Joseph Cyril Bamford, as chairman and managing director of ...

Patrick Bamford

Patrick Bamford

English professional footballer

Date of Birth: 5 September 1993
Age: 32

Patrick James Bamfordis an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for EFL Championship club Leeds United. He made one appearance for the England national team in 2021. Bamford began hi...

Ayoade Bamgboye

Ayoade Bamgboye

Comedian

Ayoade Zahrah Bamgboyeis a Nigerian and British comedian. She won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer in 2025. Career At the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Bamgboye's debut solo show Swings ...