Notable Residents
- Herbert Austin was born in Little Missenden to a farming family. He moved to Rotherham, South Yorkshire at an early age.
- Dr Benjamin Bates - Sir Francis Dashwood's physician and also a senior member of the Hellfire Club.
- John Gardner Wilkinson - traveller, writer and pioneer Egyptologist of the 19th century.
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