Notable People
- David Bret, showbusiness biographer, born in Paris but adopted into a family (Spurr) here, and attended Wath Grammar School, 1961–66
- Lucy Clarkson, Lara Croft Tomb Raider model, born in Wath-upon-Dearne and educated at Wath Comprehensive School
- Rob Dawber, scriptwriter for the Ken Loach film, The Navigators
- Simon Farnaby, actor plays various characters in the CBBC TV show Horrible Histories
- William Hague, former leader of the Conservative Party and current Foreign Secretary, was a pupil at Wath Comprehensive School
- Peter Hardy, Baron Hardy of Wath, local Labour MP for many years, born and educated in Wath
- Rev. William Keble Martin, botanist and botanical illustrator, vicar of Wath, and is also remembered by a streetname, Keble Martin Way
- Ian McMillan, poet and so-called Bard of Barnsley, was educated at the town's secondary school when it was a Grammar School
- James Montgomery, Scottish-born poet and Sheffield newspaper editor lived in Wath at the turn of the 19th century, referred to it as the "queen of villages", and is remembered today in the name of Montgomery Hall and Montgomery Square
- Sir Charles Curran, Director-General of the BBC, educated at Wath
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