Famous People Associated With Huntingdonshire
- Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland 1653-58
- John Major (1943- ), politician and former Prime Minister (1990–97)
- Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), seventeenth-century MP and diarist
- Henry Royce (1863–1933), pioneering car manufacturer and founder of Rolls-Royce
- Peter Foxhall (1941- ), Australian clergyman, evangelist and author, was born in St Neots
- Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990) English children's writer, lived in Huntingdonshire from 1937 until her death, and set the Green Knowe series there.
- Darren S. Kemp (1955- ) Green Peace Activist
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“The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the club—the famous Cincinnati Literary Club—in my affections.... The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can’t know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do—after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world’s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)