Notable People
- Robert Towns (c.1794 - 1873), Australian businessman, pastoralist, and founder of Townsville, Queensland.
- Thomas Bell reputedly developed the world's first self-raising flour in Longhorsley village shop. Bell founded a wholesale grocery business near the Tyne Quays in Newcastle in the 1880s. One of his best selling brands was a self-raising flour he called Bell's Royal. He was forced to change it to Be-Ro after it became illegal to use the Royal name following the death of Edward VII in 1910.
- Emily Wilding Davison, one of Northumberland's most famous heroines lived in the village of Longhorsley. She is notable as the suffragette who was killed after throwing herself in front of the King's horse, Anmer in the Derby of 1913, while campaigning for women's right to vote.
- Muriel Adamson, founder of The Richmond Theatre
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