Arts and Humanities
- Jane Austen, author (born, and wrote many of her major works in nearby Steventon)
- Lucy Coats, author
- John Gardner spy novelist
- Flora Gare, sculptor
- Macdonald Hastings, journalist and War Correspondent
- John James, architect
- Waldemar Januszczak, art critic and film maker
- Robert Steadman, composer and conductor
- Julian Stockwin, author
- Alex Thomson, Presenter and chief correspondent for Channel 4 News
- Joseph Warton, academic, literary critic and poet
- Thomas Warton, academic and poet, holder of the title of Poet Laureate from 1785
- Chuck Whelon, creator, artist and co-writer of the Pewfell comic strip
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