Notable Residents
- Flora Twort - artist
- Ursula Moray Williams - children's author
- Sir William Henry Harris - musician
- Commander Loftus William Jones - Victoria Cross Holder
- Sir Stuart Bonham Carter - Vice Admiral
- Sir Percy Wyn-Harris - mountaineer and Governor of The Gambia
- Stuart Ernest Piggott - archaeologist
- John Worlidge - agriculturalist
- George William Francis Darvill - flying ace and military hero
- George Best - professional football player
- John Wyndham - author, 'Day of the Triffids'
- Jamie Campbell Bower - actor, singer
- Geoffrey Bennett - author and naval historian
- Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder - Royal physician
- Alec Guinness - actor
- Arthur Brough - actor Are You Being Served
- Ellis Jones - actor
- Erica Roe - streaker
- Wilfred Brown - tenor
- John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood - football fan
- Miranda Hart - actress, writer and stand-up comedienne.
- Charles Collingwood - actor Brian Aldridge in BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers
- Edward Kelsey - actor Joe Grundy in BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers
- Right Reverend Arthur Chandler - Bishop of Bloemfontein
- William Cowper (anatomist) - surgeon, gave his name to Cowper's gland
- John Small - shopkeeper, cobbler, and Hambledon cricketer, whose shop sign read:
- Buki Akib - actress
Here lives John Small
Makes bat and ball
Pitch a wicket, play at cricket
With any man in England.
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