Notable People
- Felix Aylmer (1889–1979), Actor. President of Equity 1950-1969
- Jennifer Biddall (b. 1980), actress, best known as Jessica Harris in Hollyoaks
- Camilla Parker Bowles (b. 1947), and her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles
- Harold Brakspear (1870–1934), restoration architect and archæologist, lived at Pickwick Manor and Parkside in High Street
- Robert Brian (b.1970), drummer and session musician, most notably for Siouxsie Sioux
- Revd Richard Enraght (1837–1898), religious controversialist, curate of St Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, 1861–1864
- Sir Gabriel Goldney, 1st Baronet of Beechfield (1813–1900), MP for Chippenham, and the Goldney baronets
- Edward Hasted (1732–1812), historian, master of Corsham Almshouse
- Elizabeth Hurley (b. 1965), actress, attended St Patrick's Primary School, 1973-74
- Nick Mason (b. 1944), musician, Pink Floyd
- Baron Methuen, family seat is Corsham Court
- Gavin Schmidt, climatologist, GISS
- Jim Smith (1906-1979), England Test cricketer, brother of the below
- William Smith (1900-1990), cricketer, brother of the above
- Rini Templeton (1935–1986), artist, studied at Bath Academy in Corsham c. 1956
- Michael Tippett (1905–1998), composer, lived at Parkside in High Street, 1960-70
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