Notable People
- Anna Bebington, bronze medallist at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 in the women's double sculls
- Luke Bedford, composer
- Thomas Bradley, chaplain to King Charles I
- Sir Richard Browne, 1st Baronet of London
- Tom Burrows, cricketer
- The Cooper Temple Clause, post-hardcore punk band
- Captain Martin Crieff (Cabin Pressure (radio series))
- Claude Duval, highwayman who owned a house in the town
- Dick Francis, writer
- Thomas Godwin, Bishop of Bath and Wells, born and died in Wokingham
- Nicholas Hoult, actor
- Stephen Hughes, footballer, born in Wokingham
- Steven Lewington, professional wrestler formerly known as "The British Babe", now wrestling as "DJ Gabriel" with WWE
- Frederick Lucas, founder of The Tablet
- Henry Lucas, founder of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge University
- Sir Henry Marten, Judge of the Admiralty Court
- Bonnie Norris, youngest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
- John Dawson Read, singer-songwriter
- Leslie Sears, cricketer
- Russell Slade, football manager
- Anne Snelgrove, MP
- Bill Stone, veteran of both world wars lived in Sindlesham
- William Talman, architect and landscape designer
- Nathan Tyson, footballer, went to Forest School
- John Walter III, local benefactor and proprietor of The Times newspaper
- Will Young, singer
- Emmie Pickthall is a Television Production Coordinator currently living in London.
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