Famous Residents
- Emily Blunt, actress
- Nick Clegg, politician
- Earl of Cork and Orrery, author
- Earl of Derby, prime minister
- Earl of Granard, soldier
- William Harvey, physician (discovered the principles of blood circulation)
- Jack Hawkins, actor
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
- Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
- Simon Le Bon, pop singer
- Dawid Malan, cricketer (MCCC)
- William Pitt the younger, prime minister
- Colin Stagg, once the prime suspect in the Rachel Nickell murder on Wimbledon Common.
- Dennis Waterman, actor
- Peter Westbury, racing driver
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or residents:
“Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.”
—Alan Bennett (b. 1934)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)