* The film and stage actor Clarence Blakiston (1864-1943) was born in Giggleswick, as was Henry Maudsley, the pioneering British psychiatrist, at a farm outside Giggleswick in 1835.
* The Victorian-era actor Sir John Hare was born in the town in 1844.
* Professor Sir Nevill Francis Mott, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in