Editing Rugby, Warwickshire (section)

===Lived or lives in Rugby===
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*[[Joseph Addison]] (1672-1719),<ref>{{cite web |title=Parishes: Bilton |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/warks/vol6/pp30-35 |publisher=British History Online}}</ref> writer and politician 
*[[Matthew Arnold]] (1822–1888), poet
*[[Thomas Arnold]] (1795–1842), educator
*[[Emily Burns]] (born 1994), singer-songwriter
*[[Lewis Carroll]] (1832–1898), writer
*[[Will Carruthers]] (born 1967), musician
*[[Neville Chamberlain]] (1869–1940), politician
*[[Paul Dirac]] (1902-1984), physicist
*[[William Webb Ellis]] (1806–1872), clergyman, claimed inventor of rugby football
*[[Reginald Foort]] (1893–1980), organist
*[[Dennis Gabor]] (1900–1979), physicist
*[[William Gilbert (rugby)|William Gilbert]] (1799–1877) established [[Gilbert Rugby|Gilbert company]] sports equipment manufacturer.
*[[Thomas Hughes]] (1822–1896), writer
*[[Billy J. Kramer]] (born 1943),<ref>{{cite news |title=LOOKING BACK - March 12, 2020 edition By John Phillpott |url=https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/looking-back-march-12-2020-edition-2449637 |work=Rugby Advertiser |access-date=21 February 2021}}</ref> singer
*[[Unity Mitford]] (1914–1948),<ref>{{cite news|title=The truth behind Hitler's spurned lover|url=http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/the-truth-behind-hitler-s-spurned-lover-1-1480889|work=Rugby Advertiser|access-date=18 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005000423/http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/the-truth-behind-hitler-s-spurned-lover-1-1480889|archive-date=5 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> socialite
*[[John Moultrie (poet)|John Moultrie]] (1799–1874), clergyman and poet
*[[Kevin Painter]] (born 1967), darts player
*[[Louise Porton]] (born 1996), double murderer who killed her own two children in Rugby in January 2018
*[[Peter Purves]] (born 1939),<ref name="30celeb"/> television presenter
*Yvonne Ruddock (1965-1981),<ref>{{cite web |title=Rugby family and friends reclaim the story of the New Cross fire - the 16th birthday party which ended in tragedy |url=https://www.warwickshireworld.com/news/people/rugby-family-and-friends-reclaim-the-story-of-the-new-cross-fire-the-16th-birthday-party-which-ended-in-tragedy-3965160 |publisher=Warwickshire World |access-date=23 January 2023 |date=23 December 2022}}</ref> victim of the [[New Cross house fire]] in London.
*[[Salman Rushdie]] (born 1947), novelist
*[[Judy Simpson]] (born 1960), athlete
*[[Lesley Souter]] (1917–1981) first female electrical engineering student at the [[University of Glasgow]]
*[[Franco Wanyama]] (1968–2019), boxer
*[[Frank Whittle]] (1907–1996), inventor
*[[Clem Wilson]] (1875–1944), cricketer
*[[Johnny Williams (boxer)|Johnny Williams]] (1926–2007), boxer, one time both the British and Empire heavyweight champion
*[[Richard Henry Wood]] (1820–1908),<ref>{{cite web |title=WOOD, Richard Henry |url=http://rugby-local-history.org/index.php/biographies?id=101 |publisher=Rugby Local History Research Group |access-date=3 March 2022}}</ref>  antiquary and philanthropist
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