Notable Inhabitants
- George Eliot, Victorian novelist
- Ken Loach, film and television director
- Larry Grayson, comedian, entertainer and television presenter
- Jemma Palmer, Female WWE wrestler
- Stuart Attwell, youngest ever Premier League referee at 25
- Mary Whitehouse, TV campaigner (born in Nuneaton)
- Geoffrey de Havilland, aviation pioneer (educated at King Edward VI School)
- Ben Daniels, actor (born in Nuneaton)
- Cecil Leonard Knox, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born in Nuneaton)
- Nigel Winterburn, retired footballer
- Matty Fryatt, footballer
- Ian Roper, footballer, currently at Kettering
- Adam Whitehead, Olympic swimmer
- Andy Goode, Leicester Tigers & England International Rugby Union Player
- Paul Bradley, actor (born in Nuneaton)
- Peter Whittingham, footballer (born in Whitestone, Nuneaton)
- Wally Holmes, former England Rugby Union international (16 caps).
- John Curtis, footballer
- Justin Welch, drummer with Britpop band Elastica (1991–2001) and a drummer for Suede in their formative years
- John Barber, inventor of the gas turbine in 1791
- Kevin Kyle, Coventry City footballer
- Lisa Lashes, DJ/producer (born in Nuneaton)
- Mick Price, snooker player
- A. J. Quinnell, writer (author of Man on Fire)
- George Reader, football referee; officiated in the final game of the 1950 FIFA World Cup
- Jon Holmes, writer, comedian and broadcaster (grew up in Nuneaton)
- Richard Freeman, cryptozoologist (born in Nuneaton).
- Dean Richards, former England Rugby Union player and Rugby Union Coach (born in Nuneaton)
- Nicki Shaw, current member of the England Women's Cricket team (born in Nuneaton)
- Julian Alsop, footballer
- Jamie Oliver, drummer with the UK Subs grew up in Nuneaton and went to Etone School
- Angela White, widow of Olympic Silver participant Duncan White
- Alan and Graham "Kidder" Hammonds, musicians, Incredible Kidda Band (grew up in Nuneaton and went to Alderman Smith and Manor Park Grammar School respectively)
- Martyn Bates, musician, Eyeless in Gaza
- Peter Becker, musician, Eyeless in Gaza
- Trevor Peake, footballer, 1987 FA Cup winner with Coventry City (born in Nuneaton)
- Gareth Edwards, film director, Monsters
- Ben Ackland, Irish cricketer (born in Nuneaton)
- John Birch, Motor cycle manufacturer and designer and constructor of the New Zealand made Marlborough car
- Joanna Bates, musician, vocalist, film and TV composer
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