Notable Residents
- Thomas Elsdon Ashford, VC - Leicestershire's first recipient of the Victoria Cross, married in St Andrew's Church in 1891 and resident for some time at Brook Lane, Thringstone
- Rt Hon Charles Booth, PC - philanthropist and social reformer, pioneer of old age pensions; resident at Gracedieu Manor (1886–1916) and founder of Thringstone House Community Centre
- Adrian Cross - Antarctic Explorer
- John Albert Gee - youngest victim of the Whitwick Colliery Disaster (aged 13 years), April 1898
- Pte Theophilus Jones - Headmaster of Thringstone School: first soldier on active service to be killed on home soil during World War I, 16.12.1914
- Robert J H Maloney - footballer, Northampton Town (1926–1932)
- Gary McAllister, MBE - Scotland and Premiership footballer, formerly resident at nearby Gracedieu Warren during the time of his career at Coventry City F.C
- Marlene Reid - pioneer of local voluntary services, commemorated by the Marlene Reid Centre, Coalville, Leicestershire
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