Notable People
- Manuel Almunia (born 1977), professional footballer.
- Nick Blinko (born 1961), artist and singer/songwriter/guitarist of Rudimentary Peni.
- Pope Adrian IV (c1100-1159), born in Abbots Langley as Nicholas Breakspear.
- Chris Brooks Afternoon DJ at Capital Radio, London, grew up in Abbots Langley.
- James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury (1748–1823) probably lived at Cecil Lodge 1760s–80.
- Violet Cressy-Marcks (1895–1970), explorer and journalist, lived at Hazelwood (now Hunton Park) 1930–70.
- David Crighton, (1942–2000), mathematician, educated at Abbots Langley primary school.
- Joan Evans (art historian) (1893–1977), historian of mediaeval art.
- John Evans (archaeologist) (1823–1908), archaeologist and geologist, married and buried, St Lawrence Church, Abbots Langley.
- Elizabeth Greenhill, (1615-1679), mother of 37 single births and one set of twins.
- Thomas Greenhill (1669-1740), surgeon to Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk and 39th and last child of Elizabeth Greenhill.
- Michael Gregsten (1924-1961), physicist at the Road Research Laboratory, victim of James Hanratty in the 1961 "A6 murder" for whose death he hanged.
- Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley (1871–1954), businessman, stockbroker, merchant banker, and public servant, lived at Langley House 1906–23.
- Hugh Kindersley, 2nd Baron Kindersley (1899–1976)
- Joe Lane (1892–1959), former professional footballer.
- Marghanita Laski (1915–88), journalist and novelist, lived at Abbots House 1937–45.
- Eryl McNally, former Labour MEP.
- Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby (1798–1883), soldier, lived at Hazelwood 1838–86.
- James Vincent Murphy, (1880–1946), propagandist for Hitler that translated Mein Kampf while resident in Abbots Langley
- Robert Raymond, 1st Baron Raymond (1673–1733), politician and judge, lived at Langleybury 1711–33.
- Haile Selassie (1892–1975), spent the early part of his exile from Ethiopia at Hazelwood.
- Edward Skoyles (1923–2008) researcher and quantity surveyor.
- William Henry Smith (politician) (1825–91), member of the W H Smith station newsagent and bookselling family, lived at Cecil Lodge 1864–70.
- George Turnbull (1809–1878), civil engineer (the "first railway engineer of India"), retired to Rosehill, Abbots Langley.
- Bradley Walsh (born 1960), entertainer.
- Mark Walsh (born 1965), professional darts player within the Professional Darts Corporation.
- Nicky Stevens (born 1951), singer with The Brotherhood of Man, lived in Abbots Road.
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