text: "King Nicholas I" changed his name by deed poll from Nick Copeman and set up a new empire from his royal seat, a caravan just outside town. King Nicholas I often appeared on TV and radio around the time his book was launched.
  Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, was born in neighbouring West Runton and brought up in Sheringham.
  Benjamin Pulleyne, Vicar of Sheringham 1825–1861, was also headmaster of Gresham's School.
  Ernest Shackleton lived at Martincross (then called Mainsail Haul) in July 1910, staying until April 1911.
  Allan Smethurst (1927–2000), known as the "Singing Postman", brought up in Sheringham although born in Lancashire.
  Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist and essayist. Lived in a house called 'The Bluff' on the cliffs. He recalls Sheringham fondly in his autobiography World Within World.
  Edward Ingram Watkin (1888–1981), English writer, lived in the town.
  John Short Hewett, cleric and academic, was Vicar of Sheringham.
  Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer, lived in Sheringham in 1919. He also lived and worked at Martincross, where he wrote A Sea Symphony.
  Twin towns
  Sheringham is twinned with the town of Otterndorf, in the region of Lower Saxony, Germany. Otterndorf is at the mouth of the River Medem on part of the Elbe delta in the district of Cuxhaven.
  Sheringham is also twinned with the town of Muzillac in the region of Morbihan, Brittany, France.