Still Resident
- Raymond Allen, television scriptwriter best known for Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, lives in Ryde
- David Icke, conspiracy theorist, lives in Ryde
- Melvyn Hayes, actor, lives in Sandown
- Ellen MacArthur, sailor, based in Cowes
- Mark King, Level 42 musician.
- Dick Taylor, Pretty Things musician
- M J Trow, author and teacher
- Alan Titchmarsh, author and T.V. presenter
- The Osbournes have a holiday home in Yaverland.
- Shaw Taylor, t.v. presenter, "keep 'em peeled", lives at Alum Bay
- Edward Upward, socialist novellist lives in Sandown
- Dave Ellison, documentary film maker and creator–writer–producer of world-famous children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank. Lives in Whippingham.
- Patrick Buckland, CEO Stainless Games, creator of "Carmageddon".
- Mark Fox, businessman and journalist.
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