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People who live or have lived here(Newport,Shropshire)
Barrington J. Bayley - writer
Michael J. Bassett – film director and scriptwriter
James Sutton - actor
John Meeson Parsons – (1798–1870) art collector
Francis Neilson Adam Proudlock - Former Wolves, Ipswich Town and Nottingham Forest footballer
Paul Bracewell - Former England, Newcastle United and Sunderland footballer
David Johnson (footballer, born 1976) - Former Jamaica, Ipswich Town and Nottingham Forest footballer
Reuben Jones - medallist in the Olympics for horseriding
Simon Holt - cyclist
Ryan Palmer - chess champion
Herbert Elliott - cricketer
– (1867–1961) writer (also briefly politician)
Matthew Smith – spy, intriguer and writer
Richard Barnfield – (1574–1620) poet
Ewen Henderson – (1934–2000) ceramic artist
James Hain Friswell – (1825–1878) essayist and novelist
Samuel Johnson – (1709–1784) author
Simon Bates – (1947– ) BBC Radio 1 DJ
Radzi Chinyanganya Presenter On CBBC Show Blue Peter
Thomas Brown (1663–1704) - satirist
Robert Hendy-Freegard - (born 1971) barman, car salesman, conman and impostor who masqueraded as an MI5 agent
Michael Jack - chairman of the Hartington Group, which has its headquarters in the town
William Adams - haberdasher
Craig Phillips - winner of Big Brother 2000
Boughey baronets
William Cureton - orientalist
Sir Oliver Lodge - (1851–1940) invented the electrical spark ignition for the internal combustion engine, first principal of Birmingham University.
James Edward Quibell - (1867–1935) Egyptologist
Percy John Heawood - (1861–1955) mathematician
William Ick, (1800-1844), botanist
Charles Silvester Horne - MP for Ipswich
Peter Bottomley - MP for Worthing West
John Benbow - clerk of the Crown whose right to use a coat of arms was confirmed in 1622
Robert Puleston - supporter of Owain Glyndŵr, at the time of his rebellion against King Henry IV
William Kenyon-Slaney - sportsman, soldier and politician (MP for Newport division of Shropshire, a constituency created 1885, dissolved 1918).
Jeremy Corbyn - MP For Islington North and Leader of the Opposition (2015-)

Charles Dickens stayed in Newport and modelled Miss Havisham in Great Expectations (1861) on Elizabeth Parker, a recluse from the town.

Christmas Guisers' Play from Newport, Shropshire [1883] is about the town.

At Harper Adams University College just outside Newport in Edgmond, on 10 January 1982 the English lowest temperature weather record was broken (and is kept to this day): -26.1 °C.

Newport was the first town in Shropshire to be on Dickinson's Real Deal.

A television documentary called The Spy Who Stole My Life showed the town as the backdrop of the Robert Hendy-Freegard story, who conned students from the town was shown by Channel Five on 7 September 2005. In Australia, this was called The spy Who Conned Me.

The Army Cadet Force has a detachment, which represented the town and United Kingdom at a ceremony where they paraded under the Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium in 2005.

The town is supposedly haunted by the local ghost, Madam Pigott.

Ozzy Osbourne once owned the wine bar here , it is still called 'OZZIES'