Charles Herbert Mayo (1845–1929) was a Dorset clergyman and antiquarian.
The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. The see of Sherborne was established in around 705 by St Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury. This see was the mother diocese of the greater part of southwestern England in Saxon times, but after the Norman Conquest was incorporated into the new Diocese of Salisbury. The title Bishop of Sherborne is now used by the Church of England for a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Salisbury.
Simon Patrick was an English theologian and bishop.
Cowbridge Grammar School was one of the best-known schools in Wales until its closure in 1974. It was replaced by Cowbridge Comprehensive School.
William Thornton (1759–1828) was an American physician, inventor, painter and architect.
William Digby, 5th Baron Digby was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
Timothy Martin Thornton is a British Anglican bishop. Since 6 September 2017, he has been Bishop at Lambeth, Bishop to the Forces, and Bishop for the Falkland Islands. He was previously the area Bishop of Sherborne from 2001 to 2008, the diocesan Bishop of Truro (2009–2017), and a Member of the House of Lords (2013–2017).
Rt Rev Harold Nickinson Rodgers was the third Anglican Bishop of Sherborne in the modern era.
David Rokeby Maddock was Bishop of Dunwich from 1967 to 1976.
John Coldwell (c.1535–1596) was an English physician and bishop.
William Lyford (1598–1653) was an English nonconformist clergyman, elected to the Westminster Assembly though not sitting in it.
Henry Egerton was a British clergyman from the Egerton family. He was Bishop of Hereford between 1723 and his death in 1746.
The Dutton Baronetcy, of Sherborne in the County of Dorset, was a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 22 June 1678 for Ralph Dutton, subsequently Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire. His son, the second Baronet, also represented Gloucestershire in Parliament. The title became extinct on his death in 1743.
The Reverend John Hutchins (1698–1773) was Church of England clergyman, and English topographer, who is best known as a county historian of Dorset.
Robert Gordon (1786–1864) was a British landowner and politician.
William Rutty M.D. (1687–1730) was an English physician.
Richard Wright, MP of Sherborne, Dorset, was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Dorchester in 1597 and for Queenborough.
Alice Thornton was a British autobiographer during the English civil war. Her books were published in part in 1875.
