English Buddhists

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress. In the 2010s, she was ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes and Vanity Fair, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2015.

Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom is an English actor. He made his breakthrough as the character Legolas in The Lord of the Rings film series (2001–03), earning him three Actors Award nominations, winning once. He reprised his role in The Hobbit film series (2013–14). Considered by some to be the Errol Flynn of his time, he gained further notice appearing in epic fantasy, historical, and adventure films, including as Will Turner in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Paris in Troy (2004), Balian de Ibelin in Kingdom of Heaven (2005), and the Duke of Buckingham in The Three Musketeers (2011).

English actor (born 1976)

British-Australian actor (1916–1977)

English actress (born 1972)

Thai-British motorsports racing driver

British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)

British musician (born 1961)

English pop singer (born 1947)

Indian actor (1946-)

UK lawyer and politician

English poet and journalist (1832–1904)

English rugby union footballer

James Geoffrey Ian Norton is an English actor. He is known for roles in the television series Happy Valley (2014–2023), Grantchester (2014–2019), War & Peace (2016), and McMafia (2018). He played the title role in the 2019 film Mr. Jones and played King Harold Godwinson in the 2025 BBC historical mini-series King & Conqueror. He earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the British Academy Television Awards in 2015 for his performance as Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley. His most recent role is as Sean Rafferty in House of Guinness (2025).

English convicted child sex offender and former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician

Christopher Hamill (born 19 December 1958), known professionally as Limahl ( , an anagram of Hamill), is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of the pop band Kajagoogoo beginning in 1982, before embarking on a solo career, releasing the 1984 hit "The NeverEnding Story", the theme song for the eponymous film.

Scottish-English association football player and manager

British-Australian Theravada Buddhist monk (born 1951)

Claudia Jessie Peyton, known professionally as Claudia Jessie, is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Eloise Bridgerton in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–present). She previously appeared in third series of the BBC One police procedural WPC 56 (2015), series 4 of Line of Duty (2017), the Dave sitcom Porters (2017–2019) and the ITV miniseries Vanity Fair (2018).

British rapper (1957–2022)

British actress

British film director, screenwriter, production designer, and set decorator (born 1944)

British actor, writer and director (1925-2009)

British Marxism and Buddhism scholar (1904–1979)

English actor

British oriental scholar (1825–1889)

British theatre director

musician (1948–2010)

Buddhist scholar and mystic (1895–1989)

British actress

English politician (1928-2016)

English actor

British musician

English charity founder, festival co-founder, and fundraiser

English-Burmese singer

British barrister (1901–1983)