Editing Wimborne Minster (section)

==Notable people==
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[[File:Thomas Hardy's house - geograph.org.uk - 1778962.jpg|thumb|[[Thomas Hardy]]'s house (1881 to 1883), Avenue Road]]
*[[Tim Berners-Lee]], inventor of the [[World Wide Web]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=New community centre honours web inventor |url=https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5392587.new-community-centre-honours-web-inventor/ |access-date=2023-02-01 |website=Dorset Echo |language=en}}</ref>
*Lieutenant [[William Cox (pioneer)|William Cox]] (1764–1837), Australian pioneer born in Wimborne. 
*[[John Creasey]], English crime writer, lived at "Cattistock", Fernlea Avenue, [[Ferndown]] during the 1940s.<ref>[https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30806058139&cm_mmc=ggl-_-UK_Shopp_RareStandard-_-product_id=bi%3A%2030806058139-_-keyword=&gclid=CjwKCAiAhreNBhAYEiwAFGGKPFqTItCF_MgBPCDebnMbulIJourGnyCD7CoSSfSfjGz3QKZPhS04WhoCMlkQAvD_BwE Handwritten letter by John Creasey], 28 April 1941</ref>
*[[Montague Druitt]], suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders 
*[[Robert Fripp]], guitarist in prog rock band [[King Crimson]]
*[[Jimmy Glass]], former professional footballer
*[[George Gray (chemist)|George Gray]], Professor of Organic Chemistry at the [[University of Hull]]
*[[Isaac Gulliver]], English smuggler
*[[Thomas Hardy]], lived in Avenue Road, where he wrote ''[[A Pair of Blue Eyes]]'' (1873), commemorated by a [[blue plaque]]
*[[Eddie Howe]], Football coach, attended [[Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster|Queen Elizabeth's School]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Whitehead |first=Jacob |title=The making of Eddie Howe: Cricketer, mountain biker, manager |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4232967/2023/02/21/eddie-howe-newcastle-verwood/ |access-date=2024-07-16 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> 
*[[Josephine Kermode]], [[Manx people|Manx]] poet and playwright, better known by her pen name ''Cushag'', lived the last five years of her life in Wimborne
*[[Christopher Le Fleming]] (1908–1985), composer and music administrator
*[[Saint Leoba]] ({{circa}} 710 – 28 September 782) was an [[oblate]] at [[Wimborne Minster (church)|Wimborne Minster]]
*[[George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk]] (1906–1994), Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Commissioner for Singapore and Southeast Asia, was born at [[Merley House, Wimborne|Merley House]]
*[[Walter Parke]] (1891–1914), first-class cricketer and British Army officer
*[[Matthew Prior]] (1664–1721), English diplomat and poet, was born in Wimborne and lived there during his early childhood.<ref>Leopold George Wickham Legg, [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2Y3IGOTRXQC&dq= ''Matthew Prior: A Study of His Public Career and Correspondence''], Cambridge University Press, 2010. pp. 2–3.</ref>
*[[Walter Shaw (judge)|Walter Shaw]] (1868–1937), former [[Chief Justice of Singapore|Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements]] and Chairman of the [[Shaw Commission]]
*[[Al Stewart]], Scottish musician and singer-songwriter, grew up in the town.
*[[Gordon Haskell]], singer-songwriter, grew up in the town and went to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. 
*[[William Wentworth|William Charles Wentworth]], Australian statesman and explorer, died in Wimborne in 1872.
*[[Electric Wizard]], [[stoner rock]]/[[doom metal]] band