Great people to hail from the UK! Keep kicking, D.U.!!

[nytemare]

In honor of our friends in the UK, I am going to start a list of cool people that have come from there. This includes England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland!

Please add any I may forget, and add your favorite Brits as well!

Here goes!

Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Christopher Lee, Sean Connery, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Ewan McGregor, Orlando Bloom, Christian Bale, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, Ian McDiarmid, The Monty Pythoners, Billy Connolly, Rowan Atkinson, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, The Beatles, Stones, Who, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Queen, Annie Lennox,Peter Gabriel....and the list goes on!

Et tu, DU?

Let's try to keep this going! Plenty of Great Brits to show respect to!

:)

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

1. George Michael

Flame away but I love his music . And also Robert Palmer - I love his music as well .

[nytemare]

2. Ahhh yes, thank you for your additions!

Goood music, both of them!

[ofrfxsk]

6. Absolutely! I love them both.

Robert Palmer didn't get the attention he deserved. His death really shocked me. Way too young.

[ofrfxsk]

3. Freddie Mercury

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4. Righto!

:)

[ofrfxsk]

8. I know but I wanted to give credit where credit was due.

;)

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9. Best vocal range of any male rock singer I have heard

Strong voice!

[SOteric]

5. DS1 and his mum, GodlessCommiePrevert, EarlG, PertUK,

oh there's lots and lots of them.

Great People.

[nytemare]

7. Great folks, those Brits!!

:)

[JimmyJazz]

12. taxloss and tjwmason

[DS1]

10. Alan Turing

As we'd say around here - He was a smaht dude!

Helped break the Enigma machines of the Germans, pioneered computer science.

Samantha Fox was cool, too - she has a really big rack

[nytemare]

14. You crack me up!

With the big rack comment!

True about Turing, I watched an interesting doc on the Enigma on History Channel, I believe. That was truly a turning point in the war.

[terrya]

11. Besides the ones mentioned here...Dame Judi Dench, Dame Maggie Smith.

The lovely, very talented ladies of the theater and films. :-)

[nytemare]

15. They surely are!

Thank you for your additions!

[BooScout]

13. Catherine Zeta Jones is Welsh ....so is Tom Jones

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17. Two more Great Brits!

Thank you!

:)

[auntAgonist]

16. I was born and raised in the UK

Scotland to be exact.

I'm not so great but I thought I'd add me to the list anyway :)

[nytemare]

19. Yet Another Great Brit!

:hi:

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18. How could I forget Sir Ian McKellen and Hugo Weaving!

:shrug:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. I think Hugo Weaving is Australian

But :loveya: anyway.

[nytemare]

29. Well, this is confusing!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915989/bio

[Lydia Leftcoast]

32. So basically, the answer is "all of the above"

By the way, if you haven't seen his performance in the Australian film The Interview, please do so. He plays a man accused of being a serial killer.

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34. There was a crazy movie with him and Phil Collins

back in the early 90's, I can't remember the name for the life of me.

[ghostsofgiants]

20. Joe Strummer

I could be here for a while listing them all.

[nytemare]

21. Yep, there are many to list!

That is a good thing!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. The distinguished British lineage of Formula One champions

Mike hawthorn:


Graham Hill:


Jim Clark:


John Surtees:


Jackie Stewart:


James Hunt:


Nigel Mansell:


Damon Hill (Graham's son):

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23. Aha! Great Fast Brits!

:)

[motely36]

24. Robbie Williams!

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25. I love the song "Angel"

Ok, I liked Millenium as well. I admit it!

:)

[cassandra uprising]

26. Some favorite playwrights of mine are Brits

Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill
:thumbsup:

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27. I would love to go to the London theatres!

One of those things I must do!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Wonderful mystery writers:

P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Val McDermid (Scottish), Anne Perry, Denise Mina, Minette Walters, Reginald Hill, Colin Dexter, Kate Charles, Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Iain Pears, Phil Rickman, all with a style, depth, and intelligence that most American writers can't come close to.

(By the way, Elizabeth George, Deborah Crombie, and Martha Grimes, whose novels are set in the U.K., are Americans.)

[nytemare]

31. Quite a bit of them!

I will have to check e bay for some of their work!

[ralps]

33. J.K Rowling, Stephen Hawking, Agatha Christie, James White, C.S. Lewis,

George Orwell, H.G. Wells. :hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo:

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35. Great, all of them!

:)

[cedahlia]

36. Don't forget Mr. John Lydon

(aka "Johnny Rotten") who is one of Britain's greatest hell-raisers, and one of punk's great pioneers. (See my sig line pic...) :-) I love that man.

And you mentioned Jennifer Saunders, who is, of course, fabulous! But don't forget her husband Adrian Edmondson and his comic partner Rik Mayal of "The Young Ones!" Those guys are great!

[nytemare]

37. I remember watching "The Young Ones"

been a long time since I have seen that!