Notable Residents
- Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–97), one of the most prominent Welsh poets of the later Middle Ages, was born in Hanmer.
- Margaret Hanmer (d. of Sir David Hanmer), who married Owain Glyndŵr circa 1383
- Lorna Sage, the author of Bad Blood (winner of the 2000 Whitbread Briography Award) grew up in Hanmer during the 1940s and 1950s and the book is about her grandfather's tenure as vicar of St. Chad's parish church.
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