Notable People
- Anne Darwin, Charles Darwin's daughter, is buried in the graveyard of Malvern Priory.
- Edward Elgar, composer, taught in Great Malvern.
- Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia, visited Malvern during his 1936–1941 exile, staying at the Abbey Hotel.
- Jenny Lind, opera singer, lived and died in Malvern, and is buried in Great Malvern cemetery.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, later President of the USA, stayed at the Aldwyn Tower Hotel in St Ann's Road, Great Malvern, while convalescing from an illness at the age of 7.
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