Sir Stephen Geoffrey Redgrave CBE (born on 23 March, 1962, in Marlow, England) is a British rower who won a gold medal at five consecutive Olympic Games from 1984 to 2000, as well as an additional bronze medal in 1988. As the only Briton ever to achieve this feat, Redgrave is widely considered to be Britain's greatest Olympian. Only four other Olympians achieved the same: Pál Kovács, Aladár Gerevich (the only one to surpass it with 6 consecutive golds), Reiner Klimke, …

William Tierney Clark was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges. Born in Bristol, he was initially apprenticed to a local millwright and – guided by noted engineers Thomas Telford and John Rennie - he progressed to practice as a consulting civil engineer, moving to London where, from 1811, …

Sir Robert Taylor was a notable English architect of the mid-late 18th century. Born at Woodford, Essex, Taylor followed in his father’s footsteps and started working as a stone-mason and sculptor. Despite some important commissions (including a bust of London merchant Christopher Emmott today held in the church of St Bartholomew, Colne, Lancashire), he enjoyed little success and turned instead to architecture, where, through hard work and not little talent, …

General Sir George Brown, GCB KH (1790–1865) was a British soldier notable for commands in the Peninsular War and the Crimean War. He was born and educated in Elgin, Scotland. He obtained a commission in the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) (later the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) in 1806, was promoted lieutenant a few months later, and saw active service for the first time in the Mediterranean and at Copenhagen, …

Josiah Latimer Clark (March 10, 1822 - October 30, 1898), English electrical engineer, born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire. His first interest was in chemical manufacturing, but in 1848 he became assistant engineer at the Menai Straits bridge under his elder brother Edwin (1814-1894), the inventor of the Clark hydraulic lift graving dock. Two years later, when his brother was appointed engineer to the Electric Telegraph Company, he again acted as his assistant, …

Francis Edward Smedley, (4 October 1818 - 1 May 1864) was an English novelist born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a member of a Flintshire family. His name appears in print usually as Frank E. Smedley. A cripple from his birth, he was educated privately, and contributed his first book, "Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil", anonymously to Sharpe's London Magazine in 1846-1848.

Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, GCB, GCVO (June 21, 1826 - February 1, 1927) was a British general and Crimean War hero who served more than 30 years in the Grenadiers. Higinson was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Britain and spent his childhood in West London, which at that time was a series of villages and fields. He was educated at Eton College. As a young Grenadier he fought throughout the Crimean War and was twice promoted for services in the field.

Charles Henry Cooper (March 201808-March 21 1866) was an English antiquarian. Born at Marlow, Buckinghamshire, he was descended from a family formerly of Bray in Berkshire. He was privately educated in Reading. In 1826 he settled in Cambridge, and in 1836 was elected coroner of the borough. Four years later he qualified as a solicitor, and in time acquired an extensive practice, …

Keith (Anthony) Bosley is a British poet and prize-winning translator. He was educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow (1949 – 1956) and the Universities of Paris, Caen, and Reading (1956 – 1960), where he read French. In 1961 he began working at the BBC, mainly as an announcer on the World Service, but the work for which he perhaps best known is as a poet and translator.

Charles Fowler (May 17, 1792 - September 26, 1867), English architect, was born at Cullompton, Devon. After serving an apprenticeship of five years at Exeter, he went to London in 1814, and entered the office of David Laing, where he remained until he commenced practice for himself. His first work of importance was the court of bankruptcy in Basinghall Street, finished in 1821. In the following year he gained the first premium for a design for the new London bridge, which, …

Sir David Charles Calcutt QC (2 November 1930 - 11 August 2004) was an eminent barrister and public servant. Born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where his father ran a chemist's shop, he was an only child. He became a chorister at Christ Church, Oxford, and after becoming a music scholar at Cranleigh, of which he was later chairman of the school board, he won a choral scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. There he read not only law but music.

Alfred Weatherell Milward (born Marlow, Buckinghamshire 12 September 1870, died Winchester 1 June 1941) was a professional footballer who played in the 1893 and 1897 FA Cup Finals for Everton and in the 1900 FA Cup final for Southampton.

John Gaspard le Marchant (1766 - 1812), English major-general, was the son of an officer of dragoons, John Le Marchant, a member of an old Guernsey family. After a somewhat wild youth, Le Marchant, who entered the army in 1781, attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1797.

Andrew Glaister, born July 4th, 1967 in Marlow, England, is a video game programmer. He initially started programming games on the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum between 1981 and 1987, forming a company called Programmers Development Systems Ltd. Andrew then worked as a developer for Viacom New Media, Kinesoft Development and FASA Interactive in the US. When Microsoft Game Studios acquired FASA in 1999, Andrew continued to work for them as a Development Manager, …