Dr. William Dodd became rector of Hockliffe; he was later convicted of forgery and hanged at Tyburn.

Hockliffe is the birthplace of Arthur Henry Neumann (1850-1907), a British explorer, hunter, soldier and travel writer, famous for his exploits in Equatorial East Africa at the end of the 19th century. In 1898, he published Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa that contained