British people

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British people
Row 1: Isambard Kingdom Brunel • Gordon Brown • Keira Knightley • Winston Churchill • Chris Hoy • William Wilberforce • J. K. Rowling

Row 2: David Lloyd George • Kelly Holmes • Adam Smith • Horatio Nelson • Margaret Thatcher • George Stephenson • Lewis Hamilton
Row 3: Alex Ferguson • Aneurin Bevan • Charles Darwin • Diana, Princess of Wales • Edward Elgar • Noel Gallagher • Emmeline Pankhurst

Total population
Approximately 65,600,000
British diaspora
est 140,000,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
United Kingdom
61,000,000 (British-born of any race or ethnicity)[2][3]
 United States 36,564,465 1
678,000 2 [4][5]
 Canada 603,000 2
12,134,745 1 [6]
 Australia 1,300,000 2
10,000,000 1 [5][7]
 New Zealand 215,000 2
2,425,278 1 [8]
 Spain 761,000 2 [9]
 Chile 700,000 1 [10]
 Ireland 291,000 2 [5]
British overseas territories 247,899 3 [11]
 South Africa 212,000 2 [5]
 France 200,000 2 [5]
 Germany 115,000 2 [12]
 Argentina 100,000 1 [13]
 Cyprus 59,000 2 [12]
 Pakistan 47,000 2 [14]
 Switzerland 45,000 2 [15]
 Singapore 45,000 2 [16]
 Netherlands 44,000 2 [15]
 Israel 44,000 2 [17]
 Thailand 41,000 2 [16]
 Portugal 38,000 2 [15]
 People's Republic of China 36,000 2 [16]
 Norway 34,279 1 [18]
 Turkey 34,000 2 [15]
 India 32,000 2 [14]
 Kenya 29,000 2 [19]
 Barbados 27,000 2 [20]
 Saudi Arabia 26,000 2
 Jamaica 25,000 2 [20]
 Greece 24,000 2 [9]
 Japan 17,011 2 [21]
Languages

Cornish · English · Guernésiais · Irish · Jèrriais · Llanito · Manx · Scots · Scottish Gaelic · Welsh

Religion

Traditionally Christianity, mostly Protestantism, but also Roman Catholicism. Other religions include Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. Agnosticism and atheism are also prevalent.[22]

Footnotes
1. People who identify of full or partial British ancestry born in to that country.British American

2. British-born people who identify of British ancestry only.
3. British citizens by way of residency in the British overseas territories; however, few have ancestry from the United Kingdom.