Notable People
- Keith Barron – actor
- Brian Blessed – actor
- Dan Clarke – motor racing driver formerly driving for Minardi Team USA in the Champ Car World Series
- Albert Fox – trade unionist
- William 'Iron' Hague – British heavyweight boxing champion 1908–1911
- Kenneth Haigh – actor
- Mike Hawthorn – motor-racing driver and 1958 Formula 1 World Champion
- Ted Hughes – Poet Laureate, 1984–1998
- Harold Massingham – poet
- Graham Oliver – guitarist and founder member of heavy metal band Saxon
- Ian Parks – poet
- Dennis Priestley – professional darts player, twice world darts champion 1991 and 1994
- John William Wall (pen name Sarban) – author whose works include the novel The Sound of His Horn and the collection Ringstones
- Donald Watson – founder of the Vegan Society
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