Editing Wallingford, Oxfordshire (section)

==Notable people==
{{For|residents, constables and prisoners at the castle|Wallingford Castle}}

In the town:
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*[[Jonathan Bailey]], actor
*[[Kevin Bailey (poet)|Kevin Bailey]], poet
*[[Evelyn Barbirolli]], oboist
*[[William Blackstone]], legal writer
*[[Charlie Brooker]], comedy writer and presenter
*[[John Buckley (sculptor)|John Buckley]], sculptor
*[[Agatha Christie]], mystery writer and playwright, lived in Winterbrook House with her second husband Sir [[Max Mallowan]]. 
*[[Paul Conroy (Music Executive)|Paul Conroy]], music executive
*[[William Henry Davies (entrepreneur)]], Toronto meatpacker ([[peameal bacon]])
*[[John Dreyer (footballer)|John Dreyer]], football player
*[[Gary Elkins (footballer)|Gary Elkins]], football player
*[[Edgar Field]], [[England national football team|England]] footballer and winner of the [[FA Cup]] in [[1880 FA Cup Final|1880]]
*[[Peter Flannery]], playwright and screenwriter
*[[Dulcie Gray]], actress
*[[James Hayllar]], [[Mary Hayllar]] et al family of artists
*[[Geoffrey Keen]], actor
*Peter R. Kiff, sedimentologist and chemist<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://eprints.hrwallingford.co.uk/view/people/Kiff,_P.R..html | title=Author: Kiff, P.R. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123082731/http://eprints.hrwallingford.co.uk/view/people/Kiff,_P.R..html | archive-date=2020-01-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/1951/an/an9517600025|title=The determination of moisture in tobacco|first1=C. F. M.|last1=Fryd|first2=P. R.|last2=Kiff|date=1 January 1951|journal=Analyst|volume=76|issue=898|pages=25–32|via=pubs.rsc.org|doi=10.1039/AN9517600025|bibcode=1951Ana....76...25F}}</ref>
*[[George Dunlop Leslie]], artist
*[[Max Mallowan]], archaeologist, at Winterbrook House with [[Agatha Christie]]
*[[James H. McClure]], mystery writer
*[[Ann Packer]], Olympic athlete
*[[Zac Purchase]], Olympic athlete
*[[Edmund Charles Rawlings]], politician
*[[Moses Roper]], former slave
*[[Paul Rotha]], documentary filmmaker
*[[Gladys Bronwyn Stern]], novelist
*[[Simon Watson Taylor (surrealist)|Simon Watson Taylor]], actor, translator and surrealist
*[[Thomas Tusser]], poet
*John of Wallingford (died 1214), monk and abbot of [[St Albans Cathedral|St. Albans Abbey]]
*John of Wallingford (died 1258), monk and chronicler
*[[Richard of Wallingford]], mathematician and clockmaker
*[[Richard of Wallingford (constable)|Richard of Wallingford]], organiser in the [[English peasants' revolt of 1381|Peasants' Revolt]]
*[[William of Wallingford]], builder of Wallingford Screen at [[St Albans Cathedral]]
*[[Rex Warner]], writer
*[[Peter Cathcart Wason]], psychologist
*[[Charles West (author)|Charles West]], mystery writer
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===Members of Parliament===
{{main| Wallingford (UK Parliament constituency)}}

Wallingford used to return two [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Members of Parliament]] (MPs). This was cut to one in 1832 and none in 1885. Its prominent MPs, often not resident, included:
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*[[William Seymour Blackstone]], builder of [[Howbery Park]], [[Crowmarsh Gifford]]
*[[Thomas Browne (High Sheriff of Kent)]], [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]
*[[John Cator]], timber merchant
*[[Thomas Digges]], astronomer
*[[Sir Charles Dilke, 1st Baronet]], promoter of [[the Great Exhibition]]
*[[Edmund Dunch (Whig)|Edmund Dunch]], member of the [[Kit-Kat Club]]
*[[John Fortescue of Salden|Sir John Fortescue]], [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]]
*[[George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield]], astronomer
* Sir [[Thomas Parry (Comptroller of the Household)|Thomas Parry]], [[Comptroller of the Household]] to [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]
*[[George Pigot, Baron Pigot]], British governor of [[Madras]]
*[[Robert Pigot]], Lieutenant General in the [[American Revolutionary War]]
*[[Edmund Plowden]], lawyer who defended religious freedom
*[[Sir Francis Sykes, 1st Baronet|Francis Sykes]], builder of [[Basildon Park]]
*[[Nathaniel William Wraxall]], writer
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