People
- Guildford Slingsby (1610–1643), Irish politician
- Guylford Slingsby (1565–1631), administrator who went on to be Comptroller of the Navy
- John Francis Waller (1810–1894), writer publishing magazine articles under the pseudonym of Jonathan Freke Slingsby
- John Slingsby (1788–1826), English amateur cricketer
- Slingsby Bethel (1617–1697), Member of Parliament with republican sympathies, during the period of the English Civil War
- Tom Slingsby (born 1984), Australian sailor
- William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929), English mountain climber and alpine explorer
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