This is a list of notable people with a Wikipedia page, who have been or are associated with Nottingham and district (postcodes NG1–NG16), arranged by category and date of birth. Entries are in birth order. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) is pay-walled.
Armed forces
(c. 1040–1115) William Peverel, Norman knight who may have fought in the Battle of Hastings, was awarded over 50 manors in Nottinghamshire. (1615–1664) John Hutchinson (Colonel), parliamentary army officer and regicide, was baptised in Nottingham and probably born in his father's house at Owthorpe. (1679–1761) John Deane, had a long career in the Royal Navy and Russian Navy. He is noted for commanding in the capture of Gibraltar and as captain on the ill-fated trading vessel the Nottingham Galley, shipwrecked on Boon Island in 1710. (1795–1860) William Raynor, thought to be the oldest Victoria Cross recipient, for valour at the Siege of Delhi in 1857, was born at Plumtree, Nottinghamshire. (1826–1865) Francis Wheatley, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War in 1854, was born in Ruddington. (1829–1888) Samuel Morley or Morely, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Nathapur, India in 1858, was born at Radcliffe-on-Trent and died in Nottingham. (1832–1884) Robert Humpston, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War in 1855, died in Nottingham. (1846–1899) Anthony Clarke Booth, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, was born in Carrington, Nottingham. (1873–1916) Sapper William Hackett, awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for valour as a tunneller at Givenchy, France in 1916, was a miner from Sneinton. (1873–1946) Harry Churchill Beet, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Second Boer War in 1900, was born in Bingham. (1881–1960) Samuel Harvey, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, in 1915, was born in Basford. (1881–1936) Walter Richard Parker of the Royal Marines, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Gallipoli in 1915, died at Stapleford. (1888–1949) James Upton, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at the Battle of Aubers Ridge in the First World War in 1915, was born in the Meadows, Nottingham. (1889–1962) Robert Bye, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Third Battle of Ypres, died in Nottingham in 1962. (1890–1945) William Henry Johnson, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Ramicourt, France, in the First World War in 1918, was born at Worksop and died in Arnold. (1891–1973) Charles Ernest Garforth, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour at Harmingnies, France, in the First World War in 1914, died in Beeston and was cremated at Wilford Hill, Nottingham. (1893–1947) Wilfred Dolby Fuller, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle in the First World War in 1915, was born in Greasley. (1894–1982) Geoffrey Vickers, awarded the Victoria Cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre for valour at the Hohenzollern Redoubt in France in 1915, in charge of economic intelligence in the Second World War, and later a prominent management theorist, was born in Nottingham. (1896–1917) Albert Ball, First World War fighter pilot, was a recipient of the Victoria Cross. (1901–1972) Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke of the Royal Navy, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour in the Battle of the Barents Sea in 1942, was born and died at Oxton, Nottinghamshire. (1915–1975) Harry Nicholls, awarded the Victoria Cross for valour near the River Escaut in Belgium in 1940, was born and died in Nottingham. (1917–2020) Eleanor Wadsworth, Nottingham-born, who joined the RAF Spitfire Women in the Second World War (Born 1935) Stella Rimington, first female head of MI5, was educated at Nottingham High School for Girls.