Click on the links below to read about some notable people associated with St Augustine's parish from the past

• Matthew Brettingham the elder (1699-1769) Palladian architect and builder of Holkham Hall
   
• John Hunt (1777-1842) ornithologist, illustrator, printer and publisher

• Obediah Short (1803-1886) weaver, painter, illustrator, textile designer

• Amelia Opie, novelist, poet, reformer
• Armiger Watts Hubbard, Royal Marine officer
• John Gurney, The Weaver' Friend 
• John Collinges, Puritan clergyman
• Richard Nockolds, rebel, agitator