text: Sudbury has two namesakes in the New England region of the United States: Sudbury, Massachusetts, and Sudbury, Vermont.
  Twin towns
  Sudbury is twinned with Höxter in Germany, Clermont in France and Fredensborg in Denmark.
  Notable people
  Simon Sudbury (c. 1316–1381),  Bishop of London, then Archbishop of Canterbury and later  Lord Chancellor of England
  Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning of Sudbury (1588 – 1629), landed gentleman and Sheriff of Essex
  Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker
  Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury (1939–2023), solicitor, broadcaster, writer, Liberal Democrat politician, Chancellor of the University of Essex, co-founder of the Legal Action Group charity
  Maggi Hambling (born 1945), artist
  Stuart Slater (born 1969), professional footballer
  Joel Willans (born 1972), author, copywriter and advertising agency proprietor
  Amanda Ansell (born 1976), artist
  The landscape painter John Constable (1776–1837) worked in and near the town. Ruralist journalist and farmer Adrian Bell (1901–1980) wrote the agricultural memoir Corduroy at his parents' rented house in the town. Musician Jack Bruce (1943–2014), lead singer and bassist of the rock band Cream, died in Sudbury.
  C. G. Grimwood & S. A. Kay, History of Sudbury, Suffolk (Privately printed, 1952)
  Barry Wall, Sudbury: History & Guide'' (Tempus, 2004)