Famous People
- Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister and Earl of Oxford (as above)
- Margot Asquith, socialite, wife of prime minister, and countess
- David Astor, newspaper publisher (as above)
- Thomas Bekynton, Bishop of Bath and Wells (as above)
- Eric Arthur Blair (as above)
- Thomas Brunce, 15th-century Bishop of Norwich
- Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, great-granddaughter of Herbert Henry Asquith, have moved to the village in recent times, purchasing the Mill House (which had been owned and improved by her grandmother, Violet Bonham Carter).
- Jacques Goddet, organiser of the Tour de France, went to school here.
- Empress Matilda, 12th-century "Lady of the English" and claimant of the throne of England, was probably born at Sutton Courtenay Manor
- Hugh Macdonald Sinclair, nutritionist
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“John Gilpin was a citizen
Of credit and renown,
A train-band captain eke was he
Of famous London town.”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)
“People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can’t know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do—after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world’s anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)