British Famous Names Starting with Letter G

Is an English footballer. He is currently playing for Wycombe Wanderers.Grant started his career at

Is an English footballer. He is currently playing for Wycombe Wanderers.Grant started his career at non-league Tooting & Mitcham, before being signed by Gillingham. During an impressive trial at Millwall, Gavin was signed by Ronnie Jepson.

Is an English footballer who is currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Kilmarnock.Skelto

Is an English footballer who is currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Kilmarnock.Skelton started his career at Carlisle United as a trainee. In 1997, after three years at Brunton Park he moved to non-league Workington Reds and one year later joined then UniBond League outfit Gretna.

Is a British musician most famous for being the lead singer and guitarist of the former British rock

Is a British musician most famous for being the lead singer and guitarist of the former British rock band, Bush, and later the lead singer and guitarist of Institute, which broke up in 2006 after only one album. He is also married to Gwen Stefani, they ha

She is best known for her roles as Clare Bates in the BBC One soap EastEnders (1993-1998 & 2008), an

She is best known for her roles as Clare Bates in the BBC One soap EastEnders (1993-1998 & 2008), and as the second actress to play Clare Devine in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks (2006-2007) — for which she has won multiple awards. She has been acting since the age of 9.Bissix began her acting career at a young age. At the age of nine, in 1993, she was cast as Clare Tyler (later Bates), the daughter of Debbie Tyler (Nicola Duffett) and stepdaughter of Nigel Bates (Paul Bradley), in the long-running BBC soap opera, EastEnders. Her first acting role, Bissix had received no formal training, and has since commented, "that was my training [...] quite a lot of people [attend] drama school,

Is an English character actress on both stage and screen.

Is an English character actress on both stage and screen.

Is a British backstroke swimmer.Spofforth represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics comi

Is a British backstroke swimmer.Spofforth represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics coming 4th in the 100 m and 9th in the 200 m backstroke swimming events.

Is a British showjumper who has represented Great Britain on a number of occasions including during

Is a British showjumper who has represented Great Britain on a number of occasions including during the European and World Championships and at the Olympics. As of Jan 2010, Geoff was ranked 13th on the Team GBR list.

Is the goalkeeping coach of Championship side Plymouth Argyle. He formerly played for Aston Villa, S

Is the goalkeeping coach of Championship side Plymouth Argyle. He formerly played for Aston Villa, Swansea City and Crewe Alexandra as well as a loan spell at Bradford City.

Was a professional footballer who played as a defender who played for Huddersfield Town, Blackburn R

Was a professional footballer who played as a defender who played for Huddersfield Town, Blackburn Rovers, HFC Haarlem, York City and Halifax Town.

Is a Welsh retired jockey who was born in Talgarth, (Breconshire). He moved to London with his famil

Is a Welsh retired jockey who was born in Talgarth, (Breconshire). He moved to London with his family in 1946. He came from a large family and started his career with Ron Smyth, who was a trainer in Epsom. He will be best remembered as the jockey that won

Is a former professional footballer, who spent almost his entire career with Wolverhampton Wanderers

Is a former professional footballer, who spent almost his entire career with Wolverhampton Wanderers.Palmer spent 16 years with Wolves, playing 495 times for the club in total. He joined as an apprentice in July 1970, turning professional on his 17th birthday the following year.

Is an English former footballer who played in midfield.Pike played his early football in Thurrock an

Is an English former footballer who played in midfield.Pike played his early football in Thurrock and later with Gidea Park Rangers. He joined West Ham United in 1975 and was a member of the side that reached the 1975 FA Youth Cup Final. He made his league debut on 6 March 1976 against Birmingham City.

Was a Thoroughbred horse trainer who trained champion horses such as Teenoso and Jeune. He is the so

Was a Thoroughbred horse trainer who trained champion horses such as Teenoso and Jeune. He is the son of former jockey and trainer Harry Wragg, from whom he took over the licence at Abington Place, Newmarket in 1983 upon his father's retirement. Wragg ret

Is an English former professional footballer. Born in Leeds, he played for Bradford (Park Avenue), B

Is an English former professional footballer. Born in Leeds, he played for Bradford (Park Avenue), Bradford City, Halifax Town, Exeter City, Crewe Alexandra, Gillingham, Lincoln City and Rotherham United between 1950 and 1967.

Cope grew up in Crossgates in Leeds and first played cricket at Manston Junior School. His talent wa

Cope grew up in Crossgates in Leeds and first played cricket at Manston Junior School. His talent was shown in an Under 11 cup final in which he took all ten wickets for 26 and then batted his team to victory. He played club cricket at an early age with Leeds Zingari and then for Leeds Cricket Club in the Yorkshire League. He played for the club for 25 years. He played for England Schools and then, in 1964, for Yorkshire Second XI. He made his debut for the first team against Hampshire at Bradford Park Avenue with Ray Illingworth on Test duty. Despite taking 40 wickets at 13.82 in 1967 he didn't win a regular first team place until 1969 when Illingworth moved to captain Leicstershire.

Is an English rock guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists

Is an English rock guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists

Was a British industrialist and politician who was a maverick Conservative Member of Parliament.Hirs

Was a British industrialist and politician who was a maverick Conservative Member of Parliament.Hirst was a right-winger and supported an aggressive policy over the Suez Canal in 1956. When the Treasury Ministers Peter Thorneycroft, Enoch Powell and Nigel

Was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 1927 to 1930.

Was an English cricketer who played in 5 Tests from 1927 to 1930.

Is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. In an illustrious, but sometimes controversial career f

Is a former Yorkshire and England cricketer. In an illustrious, but sometimes controversial career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's finest opening batsmen.[2]

Is an English former footballer.Barnett played as a goalkeeper and started out at Everton in 1962, a

Is an English former footballer.Barnett played as a goalkeeper and started out at Everton in 1962, and there he gained schoolboy and U21 honours with England. However, with the goalkeeping spot being dominated by Gordon West through most of the 1960s, Barnett could only be content with being his understudy, making just ten league appearances in seven seasons for the Toffees.

In county cricket he played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club later moving to Durham County C

In county cricket he played for Northamptonshire County Cricket Club later moving to Durham County Cricket Club when they gained first-class status becoming their first county captain. After running the county's youth Academy, he was appointed first team coach in March 2007. Under Cook's guidance Durham won the first major title in the clubs history at Lords in 2007

Is an English born geologist and glaciologist. He attended Winchester College in Hampshire and gradu

Is an English born geologist and glaciologist. He attended Winchester College in Hampshire and graduated from New College, Oxford.In 1951 he became a staff member with the Canadian Defence Research Board (DRB) (now part of the Department of National Defence. With the DRB he was part of several expeditions to places such as the Saint Elias Mountains in the Yukon and Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut). From 1953-1954 he led the joint Canada-United States expedition to Ellesmere Island In 1956 he received a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford for his work on Ellesmeres glaciers.

Was a British Conservative politician. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group.

Was a British Conservative politician. He was Chairman of the European-Atlantic Group.

Is a cricketer who played 34 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals for England. His nickname of "Horse

Is a cricketer who played 34 Tests and 14 One Day Internationals for England. His nickname of "Horse" is based on his initials of GG. He was a seam and swing bowler, who finished his first-class cricket career, which lasted from 1963 to 1982, with 1130 wickets at an average of 21.91. He played for Surrey and Sussex, winning the County Championship with the former county in 1971. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1972.

Is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of

Is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University.Geoffrey Hill was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, in 1932. When he was six, his family moved to nearby Fairfield in Worcestershire, where he attended the local primary school, then the grammar school in Bromsgrove. In 1950 he was admitted to Keble College, Oxford to read English, where he published his first poems in 1952, at the age of twenty, in an eponymous Fantasy Press volume (however before that he'd been published in the Oxford Guardian—magazine of the University Liberal Club—and The Isis).