Notable People
- Ivarr the Boneless, Danish Viking invader.
- John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King Edward III
- Sir Robert de Hungerford, a Baron Hungerford and a 14th century statesman
- Charlie Austin, Footballer for Burnley
- Samuel Chandler, Nonconformist divine
- Christopher Derrick, author
- Rodney Desmeules, footballer for Swindon Town FC, Town Councillor
- William Greatrakes, connected with the authorship of the Letters of Junius
- Thomas Hayward (literary editor) (d. 1779?), editor of The British Muse (1738) and lawyer in Hungerford
- Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, RAF Chief of the Air Staff during most of World War II
- Robert Snooks, last highwayman to be hanged in England, born in Hungerford 1761
- James E. Talmage, (1862 – 1933) LDS Church leader, writer and theologian. Author of Jesus the Christ
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