Notable People
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- George Allison – Football manager in the 1930s
- James Atkinson – (1780–1852) surgeon, artist and Persian scholar
- Garry Williamson Barnes – Footballer
- Zoe Birkett – Singer and runner up on television show 'Pop Idol'
- Aidan Chambers – Prize-winning children's author
- Tom Craddock – Footballer
- James Cudworth – Locomotive Superintendent for the South Eastern Railway (1845–76)
- Giles Deacon – British Fashion Designer
- J. M. Dent – Publisher who produced the Everyman's Library series.
- Frederick Dickens – Charles Dickens' beloved scapegrace brother. He is buried in the West Cemetery.
- Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (née Kingdon) b 1938, daughter of a Darlington bank clerk. She became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London – the first woman to head a national arts institution.
- Ruth Gemmell – Actress
- Ian Hamilton – Poet and editor
- Ralph Hodgson – Poet
- George Gordon Hoskins – Architect responsible for many of Darlington's Victorian buildings
- Glenn Hugill – Actor and TV producer
- Richard Hurndall – Actor
- Mary Lawson – Stage and film actress of 1920s and 1930s
- Michael Lee – Drummer (Little Angels, The Cult, Page and Plant, Thin Lizzy)
- Neil Maddison – Footballer
- James Morrison – Footballer
- Edward Pease (1767–1858) – Quaker industrialist
- Joseph Pease (1799–1872) – Industrialist; the first Quaker M.P.
- Vic Reeves – Comedian and author
- Katherine Maria Routledge, née Pease (1866–1935) archaeologist who undertook first scientific survey of Easter Island archaeology.
- Willie Smith – Twice world billiards champion (only entered twice).
- William Thomas Stead – Editor of The Northern Echo; Victorian social commentator who died on the Titanic
- Sir John Summerson – Architectural writer
- David Varey (born 1961) – Former cricketer
- Paul Walton – Motoring Journalist
- Giuseppe Wilson – Footballer, Lazio's second highest capped player
- Darrien Wright – Strictly Dance Fever winner
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