Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Bundellu Aki
professional rugby union player
Fua Leiofi Bundellu Akiis a professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for United Rugby Championship club Connacht. Born in New Zealand, he represents Ireland at international level after q...
Fisayo Akinade
English actor
Fisayo Akinadeis an English actor, best known for his roles as Dean Monroe in Cucumber and Banana on Channel 4 and Mr. Ajayi in the popular Netflix series Heartstopper, as well as his work in theatre ...
Chuba Akpom
professional footballer
Chuba Amechi Akpomis a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Eredivisie club Ajax. Akpom began his career at Arsenal, making his senior debut in 2013. Whilst at Arsenal, he had loan perio...
Tasnime Akunjee
British Bangladeshi criminal law and human rights lawyer
Mohammed Tasnime Akunjee(born December 1977) is a British Bangladeshi criminal law and human rights lawyer, and a political commentator. He specializes in terrorism and related fields, and his notable...
Jessica Alba
American actress
Jessica Marie Albais an American actress and businesswoman. She began her television and film appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994), and rose to prominence at ...
Damon Albarn
English-Icelandic musician
Damon Albarnis an English-Icelandic musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He is the frontman of the rock band Blur and the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual band Gorillaz. ...
Ziggy Alberts
Australian singer and songwriter
Ziggy Albertsis an Australian singer-songwriter. He is best known for his studio album Laps Around the Sun, which peaked at number 2 on the ARIA Charts for Australian Artist Albums in November 2018. C...
Rafael (Rafinha) Alcantara
Brazilian professional footballer
Rafael Alcântara do Nascimento, commonly known asRafinha, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al-Arabi. He started his career with Barcelona, m...
Thiago Alcantara
professional footballer
Thiago Alcântara do Nascimento, known asThiago Alcântaraor simplyThiago, is a professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool. Born in Italy to Brazilian pa...
Dolly Alderton
British author and screenwriter
Dolly Aldertonis a British author and screenwriter. She is also columnist for The Sunday Times. Her memoir Everything I Know About Love won a 2018 National Book Award for autobiography and was shortli...
Peter James Guy Aldous
Politician
Peter James Guy Aldous(born 26 August 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Waveney constituency in Suffolk since the 2010 general electio...
Phil Aldridge
Pianist
Phil Aldridgeis pianist. When Phil was 10, the only thing he knew for certain was that he wanted to be Ringo Starr when he grew up! So, at 16, he applied for entry to Trinity College of Music to be to...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...