Notable People
- Frank Barton, footballer, born in Barton-upon-Humber
- Sean Bonney, poet, grew up in Barton-upon-Humber
- Jamie Cann (1992-2001), MP for Ipswich, born in Barton-upon-Humber
- Ken H. Harrison, artist who drew Desperate Dan
- Paul Hayes, footballer
- Ted Lewis, crime author whose best known work was adapted as the film Get Carter
- Isaac Pitman, inventor of the Pitman shorthand method.
- Peter D. Robinson (b.1969), Presiding Bishop of the United Episcopal Church of North America grew up on Barton Waterside, Barton-upon-Humber and was educated at Baysgarth School
- Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, born in Barton-upon-Humber and named after St Chad's church on Waterside Road, for which his father, William Edward Varah, was the vicar
- Samuel Wilderspin, pioneer of infant education.
- Robert Elmer Kleason, convicted murderer from Austin, Texas. The book "Evil Among Us: The Texas Mormon Missionary Murders" is written about him. Resided in Barton in 1990.
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