List of Famous people born in Nottingham, United Kingdom

Herbert Kilpin was an English football player and manager, best known as the main founding father of A.C. Milan. After playing as an amateur in his native town of Nottingham, in the early 1890s he moved to Italy to work in the textile industry and he became one of the pioneers of football in the country, first as a player for Internazionale Torino and then as player, manager, and charter member of Milan.

Keith Albarn is an English artist and the father of the musician, Damon Albarn and the artist, Jessica Albarn.

Peter Mills is an English badminton player who specializes in doubles. He started playing badminton in Southwell Junior Badminton Club at age 8, and became the England national badminton team at age 19. In 2007, he won the European Junior Badminton Championships in the boys' doubles event with Chris Adcock. He competed for England in the men's doubles and mixed team events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze and silver medal respectively.

James Thomas Watkins is an English film director and screenwriter, best known for directing The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe.

John Patrick Horgan was a British-American actor, of Irish descent, born in Nottingham, England. He was known for playing the role of Dr. John Morrison in the soap opera television series The Doctors. He completed an unabridged reading of Finnegans Wake in 1985 for the Library of Congress. Horgan died in October 2021, at the age of 92.

Alma Lucy Reville, Lady Hitchcock, was an English screenwriter and film editor, and the wife of director Alfred Hitchcock. She collaborated on scripts for her husband's films, including Shadow of a Doubt, Suspicion, and The Lady Vanishes, as well as scripts for other directors, including Henrik Galeen, Maurice Elvey, and Berthold Viertel.

Nathan James Robertson from Cotgrave in Nottinghamshire is a retired English badminton player who has achieved international success in both the men's events and the mixed doubles event. He was educated at Dayncourt School Specialist Sports College.

John Barber (1734–1793) was an English coal viewer and inventor. He was born in Nottinghamshire, but moved to Warwickshire in the 1760s to manage collieries in the Nuneaton area. For a time he lived in Camp Hill House, between Hartshill and Nuneaton, and later lived in Attleborough. He patented several inventions between 1766 and 1792, of which the most remarkable was one for a gas turbine. Although nothing practical came out of this patent, Barber was the first man to describe in detail the principle of the gas turbine, and in recent years a working model based on Barber's specification has been built.

Walter Peter Swanwick was a British actor best remembered as the "Supervisor" in the 1967 TV series, The Prisoner.

Sir Alister Clavering Hardy was an English marine biologist, an expert on marine ecosystems spanning organisms from zooplankton to whales.