Editing Ludlow (section)

=== Academia, science and business ===
[[File:Official portrait of Lord Rees of Ludlow crop 2.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Martin Rees|Lord Rees of Ludlow]], 2019]]
* [[John Senex]] (1678–1740) cartographer, engraver and explorer.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Senex, John |volume= 51 |last= Norgate |first= G.le G.|author-link= |page= 244 |year= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Molly Morgan]] (1762 in Ludlow as Mary Jones -1835) lived in the area until transported in 1788 as a convict to Australia, where she eventually became a landowner and benefactor in [[New South Wales]].
* Sir [[Charles Hastings (English physician)|Charles Hastings]] (1794 in Ludlow – 1866), was a pioneering Victorian doctor and founder of the [[British Medical Association]].
* [[Henry Hill Hickman]] (1800–1830), a very early pioneer of anaesthetics, at Lady Halton, near [[Bromfield, Shropshire|Bromfield]].
* [[Thomas Taylor Lewis]] (1801–1858), geologist and antiquarian.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle= Lewis, Thomas Taylor |volume= 33 |last= Archbold |first= W.A.J. |author-link= |page= 198 |year= |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Cardale Babington]] (1808–1895), botanist, entomologist, and archaeologist.<ref>{{Cite DNBSupp |wstitle= Babington, Charles Cardale |volume= 1 |pages= 90-92 | first= George Simonds |last= Boulger |author-link= George Simonds Boulger |year= |short= 1}}</ref>
* [[Charles Badham]] (1813 in Ludlow–1884), a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] scholar and professor at [[Sydney University]]
* [[Charles Lethbridge Kingsford]] (1862–1926), historian, his father was headmaster at Ludlow Grammar School.
* [[John Marston (businessman)|John Marston]] (1836–1918), the founder of the [[Sunbeam Motor Car Company|Sunbeam]] racing car and [[Sunbeam Cycles|motorcycle]] company.
* [[Martin Rees]], ''Baron Rees of Ludlow'' (born 1942), the current [[Astronomer Royal]], is associated with the town where he grew up,