Notable People
- Michael Birch, founder of Bebo
- Victoria Beckham, singer, fashion designer, WAG attended school at St Mary's High School, Cheshunt.
- David Bentley - premiership football player with Arsenal and later Tottenham Hotspur attended Goffs School.
- Richard Cromwell, died in Cheshunt
- Michael Dobbs, writer and politician
- Queen Elizabeth I - as Princess Elizabeth, lived here in her younger life
- Linda Lusardi - former glamour model and actress - longtime Cheshunt resident
- Ralph Creed Meredith - Chaplain to George VI and Elizabeth II
- Billy Joe Saunders, boxer
- Ryan Mason - premiership football player attended Cheshunt School
- Laura Trott, Double Gold Medal Cyclist
- Cardinal Wolsey - was given land in Cheshunt by King Henry VIII. A small park at Goffs Lane 51°42′26″N 0°03′16″W / 51.7071°N 0.0544°W / 51.7071; -0.0544 contains ruins of his manor - Cheshunt Great House. Wolsey Hall a community centre is named after this ancestral resident. The Who once played at Wolsey Hall along with many other popular bands on 11 October 1964 under their then alter ego of The High Numbers.
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