Notable People
- Thomas Audley (1488–1544), 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII of England
- Reverend Thomas Shepard (1605–1649), assistant schoolmaster at Earls Colne Grammar School who subsequently emigrated and became a founder of Harvard University
- Reverend Ralph Josselin (1616–1683), vicar, diarist
- Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845), 1st Baronet, MP and campagner for the 1833 Act abolishing slavery in the British Colonies
- Sir Edwin Manton (1909–2005), collector of the works of John Constable and multimillion pound donor to the Tate Gallery in London.
- Alex Stewart, writer, who also goes by the pseudonym of Sandy Mitchell
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