Born in 1997

£1 in 1997 would be worth approximately £2.00 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1997 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 30 March – Channel 5, Britain's fifth terrestrial television channel and its first new one since the launch of Channel 4 in November 1982, is launched.
• 31 March – BBC preschool children's television series Teletubbies first airs.
• 26 June – Publication of J. K. Rowling's first Harry Potter fantasy novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, in London by Bloomsbury Publishing, in an edition of 500 copies.
• 30 June – Essex band The Prodigy released The Fat of the Land which broke a Guinness World Record for the fastest selling dance album of all time.
• 1 July – The UK transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong, the largest remaining British colony, to the People's Republic of China as the 99 years lease on the territory formally ends.
• 30 July – Sunderland's Stadium of Light, the largest football club stadium to be built in England since the 1920s, is opened by the Duke of York.
• 2 August – The comedy film Bean is released in movie theaters.
• 21 August – The new Oasis album, Be Here Now, is released – selling a record of more than 350,000 copies on its first day.

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• Tamagotchi
• Teletubbies
• Elmo