British woman ever to win Olympic gold Alex Scott (born 1984), sports presenter, pundit and footballer. The first female football pundit at a World Cup for the BBC, the first female pundit on Sky Sports Super Sunday, and the first female to be a permanent presenter of Football Focus Chris Smalling (born 1989), footballer Dina Asher Smith, sprinter Louis Smith (born 1989), retired gymnast Djed Spence (born 2000), footballer Dujon Sterling, footballer Raheem Sterling, footballer Worrell Sterling, retired football player Daniel Sturridge (born 1989), footballer Andros Townsend (born 1991), footballer Theo Walcott (born 1989), footballer for Everton FC Kyle Walker, footballer Dillian Whyte (born 1988), boxer Ian Wright (born 1963), retired footballer Ashley Young (born 1985), footballer Reece James Writing and journalism Trish Adudu (born 1969), journalist, newsreader and TV presenter Akala (born 1983), journalist, author, activist and poet Raymond Antrobus (born 1986), poet, educator and writer. The first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection The Perseverance Barbara Blake-Hannah (born 1941), author and Journalist. British television's first black on-camera reporter and interviewer Valerie Bloom (born 1956), author and poet Syd Burke (died 2010), broadcaster, journalist and photographer Candice Carty-Williams (born 1989), writer and author. She was the first black woman to win the British Book Awards "Book of the Year" accolade for her novel Queenie Lady Colin Campbell (born 1949), author and socialite Patricia Cumper (born 1954), playwright, producer, director, theatre administrator, critic and commentator. Ferdinand Dennis (born 1956), writer, broadcaster, journalist and lecturer Salena Godden, broadcaster, author, activist, memoirist and essayist. Colin Grant (born 1961), author Victor Headley (born 1959), author and producer Ben Hunte, journalist and reporter Linton Kwesi Johnson (born 1952), poet and activist Darren Jordon, journalist Andrea Levy (died 2019), author, the first writer of colour whose pen would join the Royal Society of Literature's historic collection Una Marson (died 1965), writer, producer of plays and radio programmes. She was the first black female radio producer at the BBC Clive Myrie (born 1964), journalist, newsreader and TV presenter Zadie Smith (born 1975), author Vivian Virtue (died 1998), translator and broadcaster Charlene White (born 1980), journalist, newsreader and TV presenter Kerry Young (born 1955), author Benjamin Zephaniah (born 1958), author and dub poet Others Fay Allen (died 2021), first black woman police constable in the United Kingdom Vanley Burke (born 1951), photographer and artist Sergeant William Robinson Clarke (died1981), World War I airman