- Sarah Maria Kingsley – Novelist, Public Speaker, Temperance worker and Campaigner for working class women and children
- Mary (Bithia) Croker – prolific anglo indian novelist
- Catherine Crowe – one of seven women writers who transformed British Literature
- John James Wilson – a prolific and notable landscape artist
- Henry Hamilton – He was an English playwright, lyricist and actor.
- Jessica Landseer – Landscape and miniature painter. She was a watercolourist, painting landscapes, portraits, still lifes, animals and miniatures.
- James Boxer – Harbour superintendant and water colour artist
- Edward Langford Davies – He was a camera obscura and lantern exhibitor – and ventriloquist.
- Isaac Gale – a trumpeter in the 17th Lancers (the ‘death or glory boys),’ and is said to have sounded the charge at Ulundi in the Zulu War
- Herbert Warrington Hogg – artist, sculptor, designer for Crown Derby
- Abdulhalim Memdouh – Turkish poet and writer
- Thomas Ramell – Army band master
- Henry Roberts – a music professor
- William Tolputt – Professor of Music, ran a music shop
