Notable People
- Richard Ashcroft, songwriter and lead singer of The Verve
- Monty Don, BBC TV presenter
- Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I
- Sir Edward Elgar, famous composer
- David Garrick, renowned actor of the 18th century
- Lady Godiva, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia
- Harold Godwinson, Earl of Hereford and last Anglo-Saxon King of England
- Ellie Goulding, musician
- Nell Gwynne, mistress of King Charles II of England
- Richard Hammond, Top Gear presenter
- Terry Jenkins, professional darts player
- St. John Kemble (martyr) Catholic priest
- Francis Kilvert, 19th century diarist
- Albert Lee, legendary country guitarist
- John Masefield, Poet Laureate
- George Nash, Archaeologist, writer and BBC Radio 4 presenter
- Sidney Nolan, Australian Artist (from late 1970s)
- John Oldcastle, Lollard leader and basis for Shakespeare's character Falstaff
- Blanche Parry, Lady in Waiting to Queen Elizabeth I
- Peter Scudamore, jockey
- Tom Spring, bare-knuckle boxer, champion of England in 19th century
- Thomas Traherne, 17th century poet
- Alfred Watkins, pioneering archaeologist and photographer
- Richard Johnson, jockey
- Sir Walter Roper Lawrence, author
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