Julian Lloyd Webber is a British cellist. He is the son of the composer William Lloyd Webber (some of whose pieces for cello he has recorded) and the younger brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber. The two brothers collaborated on the classical/rock recording Variations — based on Paganini's A minor Caprice for solo violin.

Jacqueline Mary du Pré, O.B.E. (January 26, 1945 - October 19, 1987), was a British cellist, today acknowledged as one of the greatest exponents of the instrument. She is particularly associated with the Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor; her interpretation of this work has been described as "definitive" and "legendary."

Francine Brody is a British actress and book editor. Brody has performed in UK performances of plays such as "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "The Glass Menagerie". Her film and television acting work has included "I Dreamed of Africa", "Maigret", "The Hotel Majestic" and a video for the Kinks album "Lost & Found (1986-1989)".

Gay-Yee Westerhoff, from Hull, Yorkshire in England, is the Chinese-English cellist of the all female string quartet bond and holds an Honours Degree in music from Trinity College of Music in London. Gay-Yee has performed with groups including Primal Scream, Spice Girls, Talvin Singh, Embrace, Sting, Bryan Adams, Barry Manilow and Vanessa-Mae.

Anthony Pleeth, born in 1948 in London, is an English cellist, specialising in the historically-informed performance of music of the 18th and 19th centuries on period instruments.

Colin Carr is a distinguished professor of cello currently at the Royal Academy of Music. Carr taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston for 16 years before taking up his current job at the Royal Academy of Music. In addition, he is also affiliated with the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He took second place in the international Rostropovich Cello Competition. Carr began playing at the age of five, and studied with Maurice Gendron.

Richard Craig Harwood (born August 8, 1979) is a British cellist. Richard Harwood was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire and began learning to play the piano, aged four (teachers included Diana Bell and Joyce Rathbone) and the cello, aged five. He achieved his Associated Board Grade 8 in cello, aged 8 and in piano, aged 11. After beginning cello studies with two local teachers, Richard studied with Joan Dickson from 1988 until her death in 1994, …

Fiona Thompson began studying cello in her native England at the age of seven and studied with Leonid Gorokhov at the Royal Northern College of Music, and with Ronald Leonard at the University of Southern California. Currently, Thompson is the principal cellist of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra as well as Artist-in-Residence at Messiah College in Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and has recently toured Japan with the Kennedy Center Opera.

Frederick Nicholls Crouch was an English composer and cellist. Crouch was born in Marylebone in London. He emigrated to the United States in 1849 and settled in Richmond, Virginia. During the Civil War, Crouch took up arms and played the trumpet for the Confederacy. Crouch was noted as a fine cellist, having played in the King's Theatre as well as St. Paul's Cathedral in London, before coming to the United States, but the majority of his compositions were not successful.

Giacobbe Cervetto (1682-1783) was an important cellist and composer of music for cello in 18th century England.. Giacobbe Bassevi il Cervetto was born into a Jewish family in Livorno in 1682. It is unclear how he acquired the nickname Cervetto (i.e. "little deer" in Italian). He moved to London in 1739 and was a leading musical figure there for decades, an excellent cellist, and a dealer in musical instruments and strings. He was a regular in the Handel's orchestra.

Charles Lucas (1808-March 23, 1869) was an English cellist and Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He was born in Salisbury where he received his first musical education as a chorister at the Cathedral. He then attended the newly formed Royal Academy of Music in London where he studied under the celebrated cellist Robert Lindley. In 1830 he was appointed Composer and Violoncellist to Queen Adelaide, and became the Organist of St. George's Chapel.

Peers Coetmore was an English cellist. She spent her early years in Skegness. Coetmore won the Royal Academy of Music's Piatti Prize for cellists in 1924. She married the Anglo-Irish composer E.J. Moeran in 1945 and is the dedicatee of his Cello Concerto and his Cello Sonata. She gave the premiere performance of both these works (the Sonata with the pianist Charles Lynch). Among her students was Doreen Carwithen.

Lewis Henry Lavenu (1818-1859) was an English composer, conductor, musician and impresario. Born in London in 1818, the only son, by his second wife Eliza, of Lewis Lavenu, a music publisher to the Prince Regent. Shortly after his birth his father died and his mother went into business with the violinist Nicolas Mori, a pupil of Viotti by whom she had 5 children, although they weren't married until 1826 (in St. Paul's, Covent Garden).

Felix Adrian Norman Salmond (19 November, 1888 - 20 February, 1952) was an English cellist and cello teacher who achieved success in both England and the United States of America.

Beatrice Harrison (b. Roorkee, N.W. India) was a British cellist active in the first half of the twentieth century. She gave first performances of several important English works, especially those of Delius, and made the first or standard recordings of others.