Notable People
Notable residents, past and present, include:
- Bare Noize (1985–present) electronic music production outfit
- John Austin (1790-1859), legal philosopher
- Sarah Austin (née Taylor) (1793-1867), writer, translator and wife of John Austin
- Maurice Hewlett - novelist and husband of Hilda Hewlett, was born in the town
- Jacqueline Bisset - actress, was born in the town
- Joseph 'Mutt' Summers - Vickers' chief test pilot at Brooklands, lived at Tythe Barn in St George Avenue in the mid 1930s and is buried in Weybridge Cemetery
- Brian Trubshaw - BAC chief test pilot at Brooklands, lived in Egerton Road in the 1960s
- G.R. "Jock" Bryce - former chief test pilot of BAC, also chief test pilot of Vickers Armstrong has lived in Weybridge since the early 1960s
- John Lennon - lived in Weybridge in the mid to late 1960s, in a mansion on St George's Hill
- Ringo Starr - lived in Weybridge in the late 1960s
- Tom Jones - lived in Weybridge in the late 1960s
- Nina Bawden - lived in Weybridge in the 1960s and 70s, Carrie's War was written at her house in Hanger Hill, since demolished along with the private 'Wallop School'
- Fanny Kemble - author, actor and anti-slavery supporter, lived at Eastlands in Brooklands Road
- E.M. Forster - author, wrote his best known book, Howards End, in Weybridge, 1908–10
- Michael Aspel - journalist and television presenter, patron of the Weybridge Society, awarded the Freedom of Elmbridge in recognition of his many campaigns and charities in the Borough
- You Me At Six - Pop rock band. Consisting of Josh Franceschi, Matt Barnes, Dan Flint, Chris Miller and Max Helyer.
- Petr Čech - Czech footballer, Chelsea FC
- Peter Crouch - footballer, Stoke City FC, on Monument Hill
- Abbey Clancy - model
- Eamonn Holmes & Ruth Langsford, broadcasters
- Warwick Deeping, author, most notably for Sorrell and Son, lived in Eastlands on Brooklands Road during the 1920s through 1950s.
- Lucy O'Donnell - the "Lucy" of the 1967 Beatles song "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
- Pete Ham (1947-1975) and Tom Evans (1947-1983) of the pop group Badfinger lived in Weybridge in the 1970s.
- Kelvin McKenzie - journalist
- Robert Evans - Labour European politician lives in Oatlands
- Lily Loveless - actor, Skins
- Theo Paphitis - businessman and TV personality, Dragons Den and Entrepreneur
- Cliff Richard - pop singer
- Nicola Roberts - Girls Aloud band member
- Shilpa Shetty - actress
- Kieran Brennan - property mogul
- You Me At Six - band
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