Famous Residents
- Christopher Green (born 1968), comedy performer and writer
- Simon Groom (born 1950), the DJ and former Blue Peter presenter
- Iain O'Brien (born 1976), Former New Zealand Test cricketer
- Rhythm Plate, deep house musical duo and producers
- Isy Suttie (born 1978), comedian and actress
- Philip Whitehead (1937-2005), MP and later MEP
- Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887), engineer, inventor of the Whitworth screw thread builder of Whitworth Institute & Park still in use today, he made an outstanding contribution to the industrial revolution by standardising measurements of nuts and bolts.
- Jason Molyneux (born 1986) devised and spearheaded the campaign to build a skatepark in Matlock. He lead the group known as 'Rampage' which campaigned for 6 years to bring Matlock its first extreme sport venue, built in 2004. He left a trail of broken decks, ankles and hearts when he left the town to pursue his career.
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“The treasury of America lies in those ambitions and those energies that cannot be restricted to a special, favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men; upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)