Notable Residents
- The British composer Gustav Holst was a long term resident. Sections of his most famous work, The Planets, were inspired by local characters. Holst's setting of the patriotic hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country" to the trio melody of "Jupiter" in The Planets is named after the town.
- Richard "Conversation" Sharp MP (1759-1835) was educated here by the Disssenting Minister, Rev. John Fell.
- Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl's Moving Castle and many other novels, was raised in the town.
- Conrad Noel (1869–1942), an ardent Christian Socialist, Noel was Thaxted's most famous and controversial vicar, serving in the post from 1910 until his death.
- John Hunter (1932–2005) who was at the forefront of what is now the national movement to marry agricultural prosperity with the conservation of natural and historical features in the landscape; he was also the pre-eminent landscape archaeologist / historian of Essex and Cambridgeshire. He is the author of two books and many shorter papers on these subjects.
- The actresses Fiona Shaw and Saffron Burrows share a house in Thaxted.
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