English people
English people
Alfred the Great • W. Shakespeare • G. Stephenson • D. Albarn
Elizabeth I • N. Gwyn • J. Austen • K. Winslet
Total population
c. 90,000,000 worldwide
Regions with significant populations
England
45.26 million (estimate)
[1]
United States
28,410,295
[2]
Canada
6,570,015
[3]
Australia
6,358,880
[4]
New Zealand
44,202 - 281,895
[5]
Languages
English
Religion
Traditionally Christianity, mostly Anglicanism, but also
non-conformists (see History of the Church of England) and
also Roman Catholics (see Catholic Emancipation). Minority
Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and others (See Religion in
England).
The English (from Old English: Englisc) are a nation and
ethnic group native to England who speak English. The
English identity as a people is of early medieval origin,
when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn.
The largest single English population reside in Eng-
land, a constituent country of the United Kingdom. They
are often believed to be a mixture of several closely re-
lated groups that have settled in what became England,
such as the Angles, Saxons, Norse Vikings, Britons and
Normans.
This group forms the largest part of the racially-
based classification used in the 2001 UK census known as
White British. More recent migrations to England in-
clude peoples from a variety of different regions of Great
Britain and Ireland and many other countries, mostly
from Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Commonwealth
countries. Some of these more recent migrants and their
descendants have assumed a solely British or English
identity, while others have developed dual or hyphen-
ated identities.[6][7][8][9][10]
Definitions
"The Arrival of the First Ancestors of Englishmen out of Ger-
many into Britain": a fanciful image of the Anglo-Saxon migra-
tion, an event central to the English national myth. From A
Restitution of Decayed Intelligence by Richard Verstegan
(1605)
Writing about the English may be complicated because
England has historically been settled by waves of in-
vaders and immigrants at dif