Notable People
- Alfred The Great – King of Wessex
- Roland Brotherhood – railway engineer
- David Bishop (athlete) – track athlete
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel – built the Great Western Railway through Chippenham
- Jeremy Corbyn – Labour Party MP and Stop The War activist
- Darren Eadie – Former Norwich City Football Club player
- Robin Hobbs – England test cricketer, born in Chippenham, remains Wiltshire's most capped test cricketer
- Wil Hodgson – comedian, winner Perrier Best Newcomer 2004
- Francis Kilvert – diarist, born in Hardenhuish and lived in nearby Langley Burrell
- Robert Peel – Prime Minister and police reformer, was MP for a short time
- David Simeon - television and theatre actor
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