Notable Residents
- Evan Davis, presenter of Dragons' Den
- Clara Dow, singer, soprano for Gilbert and Sullivan
- Albert "Smiler" Marshall, the last British cavalryman to have ridden into battle on the Western Front, lived and died in Ashtead.
- Andrea McLean, the Scottish television presenter currently lives in the village.
- Beverley Nichols, whose Merry Hall trilogy is about his decade restoring a house in this area.
- Samuel Pepys, visited Ashtead in the 17th century and spent some time living there as a boy.
- Alec Stewart, the former England cricketer and wicketkeeper lives in the village.
- Arthur Duckham, founder and first President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, lived at High Warren, where he died at the age of 52 after a game of squash.
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