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 England, a constituent country of
the United Kingdom. They are a mixture of
several closely related 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 re-
cent migrations to England include peoples
from a variety of different regions of Great
Britain and Ireland and many other coun-
tries, 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
hyphenated identities.[6][7][8][9][10]
Definitions
"The Arrival of the First Ancestors of English-
men out of Germany into Britain": a fanciful
image of the Anglo-Saxon migration, an event
central to the English national myth. From A
Restitution of Decayed Intelligence by
Richard Verstegan (1605)
Writing about the English may be complic-
ated because England has historically been
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English people
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settled by waves of inv