text: Mary Beard (born Much Wenlock 1955) an English scholar and classicist, the New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible"
  Roger Preece (born 1968 in Much Wenlock) was professional midfield footballer between 1986 and 2004, playing over 350 games mainly for Wrexham A.F.C. and Chester City F.C.
  Matthew Green (born 1970), Liberal Democrat politician, lived in Much Wenlock when he became MP for Ludlow from 2001 to 2005.
  Isobel Cooper (born Much Wenlock 1975), operatic pop soprano singer, known professionally as Izzy.
  Films
  In 1950 the town and its surrounding countryside were the locations of the film Gone to Earth by Powell and Pressburger. In 1985 the film was fully restored by the National Film Archive, and premiered to great acclaim. The New Statesman review claimed the restored film to be... "One of the great British regional films" ...(and)... "one of the most beautiful films ever to be shot of the English countryside". The film was based on the 1917 novel of the same name by the Shropshire writer Mary Webb, which was partly inspired by the Diary of Francis Kilvert.
  The John Cleese film Clockwise was filmed partly in and around Much Wenlock.
  Schools
  Much Wenlock Primary School
  William Brookes School