Cotton; Charles (1630-1687); Poet and Royalist; born Beresford Hall, Alstonefield; friend of Izaak Walton, with whom he fished the River Dove.
Hobbes; Thomas (1588-1679); Philosopher; tutor to the 2nd and 3rd earls of Devonshire. Buried at Ault Hucknall.
Moss; Oscar Hackett Neil (1938-1959); Potholer; died when trapped in Peak Cavern, Castleton, 1959.
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist