Famous People
- Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister and Earl of Oxford (as above)
- Margot Asquith, socialite, wife of prime minister, and countess
- David Astor, newspaper publisher (as above)
- Thomas Bekynton, Bishop of Bath and Wells (as above)
- Eric Arthur Blair (as above)
- Thomas Brunce, 15th-century Bishop of Norwich
- Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter, great-granddaughter of Herbert Henry Asquith, have moved to the village in recent times, purchasing the Mill House (which had been owned and improved by her grandmother, Violet Bonham Carter).
- Jacques Goddet, organiser of the Tour de France, went to school here.
- Empress Matilda, 12th-century "Lady of the English" and claimant of the throne of England, was probably born at Sutton Courtenay Manor
- Hugh Macdonald Sinclair, nutritionist
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