Notable Persons
- James Biddles, father of the 19th century actor James Biddles whose daughter Adelaide married Charles Alexander Calvert
- Rosemary Conley, the creator of the Hip & Thigh Diet, lived in Mountsorrel before moving to Quorndon.
- Hilda Lewis, daughter of the vicar William Lewis, married the palaeontologist Leslie Reginald Cox
- The sculptor John Charles Felix Rossi lived in the village in the 19th century
- There is a plaque, stating that it is believed locally that Dick Turpin used the mounting point opposite The Swan Inn, Loughborough Road,
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