Other Notables
- Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author, comic and radio dramatist
- Rachel Ashwell (born 1959), author, designer and entrepreneur
- Edward Betts (1815–1872), civil engineering contractor
- Thomas Brassey (1805–1870), civil engineering contractor
- Capability Brown (1715–1783), landscape gardener
- William Caxton (c. 1422 – c. 1491), printer
- Donald Campbell (1921–1967), world land and water speed record holder
- Sir Malcolm Campbell (1885–1949), automobile and speedboat racer.
- Sir John Chesshyre (1662–1738), lawyer
- Grace Darling (1815–1842), heroine
- William Emes (c. 1729 – 1803), landscape gardener
- Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), prison reformer
- Peter Molyneux (1959), Video game designer
- Thomas Grissell (1801–1874), public works contractor
- Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), pioneer aviator and aviation entrepreneur
- Ebenezer Howard (1850–1928), urban planner
- Edward Kemp (1817–91), garden designer
- Gideon Lester (born 1972), dramaturg, adaptator, theatre artistic director
- Joshua A. Norton (1811–1880), Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
- Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1809–1889), civil engineering contractor
- Wat Tyler (died 1381), leader of the Peasants' Revolt (1381)
- William Wakefield (1801–1848), founder of Wellington, New Zealand
- Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper (1814–1892), Matron of St Thomas's Hospital from 1854–1887.
- Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), political activist and suffragist
- Joseph Williamson (1769–1840), philanthropist, merchant and tunneler
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