Armed Forces
- (1615) John Hutchinson (Colonel), parliamentary army officer and regicide, was baptised in Nottingham and probably born in his father's house at Owthorpe.
- (1795) William Raynor, thought to be the oldest recipient of the Victoria Cross, for valour at the Siege of Delhi in 1857, was born at Plumtree.
- (1822) Francis Wheatley, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War in 1854, was born in Ruddington.
- (1829) Samuel Morley or Morely, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Nathapur, India in 1858, was born at Radcliffe-on-Trent and died in Nottingham.
- (1832) Robert Humpston, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War in 1855, died in Nottingham.
- (1846) Anthony Clarke Booth, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, was born in Carrington, Nottingham.
- (1873) Sapper William Hackett, awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for valour as a tunneller at Givenchy, France in 1916, was a miner from Sneinton.
- (1873) Harry Churchill Beet, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Boer War in 1900, was born in Bingham.
- (1881) Samuel Harvey, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, in 1915, was born in Basford.
- (1881) Walter Richard Parker of the Royal Marines, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Gallipoli in 1915, died at Stapleford.
- (1888) James Upton, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in the First World War in 1915, was born in the Meadows, Nottingham.
- (1889) Robert Bye, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Third Battle of Ypres, died in Nottingham in 1962.
- (1890) William Henry Johnson, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Ramicourt, France, in the First World War in 1918, was born at Worksop and died in Nottingham.
- (1891) Charles Ernest Garforth, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Harmingnies, France, in the First World War in 1914, was cremated at Wilford Hill, Nottingham.
- (1893) Wilfred Dolby Fuller, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in the First World War in 1915, was born in Greasley.
- (1894) Geoffrey Vickers, awarded the Victoria Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre for valour at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in France in 1915, in charge of economic intelligence in the Second World War, and later a prominent management theorist, was born in Nottingham.
- (1896) Albert Ball, First World War fighter pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- (1901) Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke of the Royal Navy, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942, was born and died at Oxton, Nottinghamshire.
- (1915) Harry Nicholls, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour near the River Escaut in Belgium in 1940, was born and died in Nottingham.
- (1922) Terrence Sisson, served in the Fleet Air Arm in South Africa during the Second World War and wrote a book about Just Nuisance.
- (1935) Stella Rimington, first female head of MI5, educated at Nottingham High School for Girls.
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