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- Nigel Benson, the author, was born in Newport Pagnell
- Steve Brooker, footballer, was born in Newport Pagnell
- Kelly George, actor and star of BBC children's television series Grange Hill, lived and was educated in the town
- Gordon Moakes, bassist of Indie band Bloc Party, was educated in Newport Pagnell, as were the members of the ska punk band Capdown
- David Oldfield who played for Leicester City, Stoke City & Oxford United, lived in Newport Pagnell
- The town is briefly mentioned in the song "Is It Really So Strange?" by Manchester band The Smiths
- Oliver Cromwell (son of his more famous father) is rumoured to have died in Newport Pagnell in the spring of 1644
- George Walters, born 15 September 1829 in Newport Pagnell, won the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Inkermann (where he was a Sergeant with the 49th Regiment of Foot) on 5 November 1854, by saving the life of Brigadier-General Adams
- Charles Sanford Terry, the historian, musicologist and authority on J. S. Bach, was born in Newport Pagnell in 1864
- Letitia Dean went to Cedars School in the town
- James Nash, World Touring Car Championship driver, lives in Newport Pagnell
- Richard Meredith, author, lives in Newport Pagnell
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“Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for all the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
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