People
See also: Category:People from Royal Leamington Spa- John Betjeman's poem "Death in Leamington" portrays one view of Leamington's ambience in the 1920s
- Annie Butler, supercentenarian, who was Britain's second oldest person when she died in 2009 at the age of 112.
- Chris Coleman, Association football manager lives in the town
- Aleister Crowley, occultist, poet and mountaineer was born in Leamington in 1875.
- Charles Dickens set a scene in his novel Dombey and Son, and gave readings from his work there in 1855 and 1862.
- Roberto Di Matteo, Association football manager lives in the town
- Henry Twiselton Elliston, musician and inventor
- Ben Foster, West Bromwich Albion F.C goalkeeper
- Sir Terry Frost R.A. was born in the town in 1915.
- Trina Gulliver, ladies darts player, a 9-time world champion in the British Darts Organisation, was born in the town in 1969.
- Ethel R. Harraden Glover (1857–1917), English composer, lived and worked in Leamington Spa. She married Frank Glover, owner of the Leamington Spa Courier newspaper.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne lived in the town, in Lansdowne Circus.
- Aman Hayer, music producer, born in Leamington Spa and lives in Leamington Spa.
- David Hobbs, former racing driver for McLaren Formula 1 team, and 24 Hours of Le Mans driver, was born in Leamington Spa.
- Leonard Hodgson, theologian, lived in Leamington.
- Christian Horner, team principal of Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team and former driver in F3000, born in Royal Leamington Spa.
- Russell Howard, comedian and performer lives in the town
- Antonin Petrak MBE, a Czechoslovakian who served in the SOE on the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, lived in Leamington Spa after he escaped Nazi occupied Europe in 1940-41.
- Erwin Schrödinger's maternal family was from Leamington Spa; the physicist visited his family there
- Howard Skempton, minimalist composer lives in Leamington.
- Lytton Strachey, biographer, attended Leamington College for Boys in Binswood Avenue
- Randolph Turpin, boxer, was born in Leamington. He defeated Sugar Ray Robinson to become world middleweight champion in 1951.
- Frank Whittle, inventor of the jet engine, attended Leamington College for Boys in Binswood Avenue
- Sir Arthur Young, police chief and police reformer, was Chief Constable of Leamington Spa from 1938 to 1941.
- Malcolm Sayer, aircraft and car designer, designer of the E Type Jaguar lived in Leamington Spa.
- Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon III and emperor of France lived here in exile between 1838 and 1839.
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