Dan & Phil

Daniel James Howell (born June 11, 1991)  and Philip Michael Lester (born January 30, 1987), better known as Dan and Phil, are English YouTubers and former radio personalities, perhaps best known for their aptly titled show on BBC Radio 1: Dan and Phil.

Dan
Dan was born on June 11, 1991, and was raised in Wokingham, Berkshire. He entered the University of Manchester aged nineteen to study law, but later dropped out to take up vlogging as a profession. At around the same time he moved into a Manchester apartment with Phil, and later moved with him to two subsequent apartments in London. He originally started vlogging in 2009 (encouraged by Phil, whom he had begun conversing with online) and his personal channel (Daniel Howell) currently has over 6 million subscribers and over 600 million views. Dan's channel was originally known as "danisnotonfire", but in 2017 he chose to rebrand it to his full name, "Daniel Howell, having grown tired of people poking fun at the name. Since 2018, Dan has intermittently been on hiatus from his YouTube channel and the internet as a whole; he began to make a comeback on Twitter and Instagram in late 2019.

Phil
Phil was born January 30, 1987, and was raised in Rawtenstall, Lancashire. He holds a degree in English Language and Linguistics and an MA in Video Post-production with Specialisation in Visual Effects, both of which he achieved while studying at the University of York. He originally started vlogging in 2006 and his personal channel (AmazingPhil) currently has over 4 million subscribers and over 400 million views.

Gaming channel
In 2014, Dan and Phil started their own gaming channel called "DanandPhilGAMES". The channel has over 3,000,000 subscribers as of October 2017. At the time ir reached 1,000,000 subscribers, it was the fastest-growing channel on YouTube. The channel has been on hiatus since December 2018.

Smosh
Dan and Phil interviewed Anthony Padilla for their Radio 1 show, the video for which can be seen on Anthony's personal channel, AnthonyPadilla. They also appeared in Every Smosh Video Ever, making fun of Charlie the Drunk Guinea Pig.