List of residents of Wolverhampton

This is a list of notable people born in, or associated with, the city of Wolverhampton in England.

* Frances Barber - Actress
* Nigel Bennett - actor
* Babylon Zoo - British electro rock band of the mid 1990s
* Richard Attwood - Winner, 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans. Former Formula One driver.
* Sir William Maddock Bayliss - physician.
* Norman Brook - Cabinet Secretary (1947–1962)
* Stephen Byers - former Cabinet Minister, Labour Party politician.
* Mark Davies - Footballer currently playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
* Edward Elgar - despite living in Worcester, he was an ardent Wolverhampton Wanderers fan and may have travelled to home games on his bicycle. Elgar bought two Wolverhampton-produced Royal Sunbeam bicycles in 1903, which he named Mr Phoebus, and visited the Sunbeam Works in Upper Villiers Street for 'tuning'.
* Dr Robert William Felkin (1853-1926) - LRCS (Edinburgh), MD (Marberg), FRSE, FRGS; medical missionary; ceremonial magician, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and founder of the Whare Ra lodge; author on Uganda and Central Africa; explorer and anthropologist.
* Button Gwinnett - signatory of the US Declaration of Independence.
* Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman - first Lord Speaker.
* Sir Jack Hayward, OBE - son of Wolverhampton factory owners, self-made millionaire, benefactor of many charities, fighter pilot in the Second World War, President of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
* Rachael Heyhoe-Flint - captain of the England Women's Cricket World Cup team 1973.
* Dave Hill - lead guitarist for the band Slade.
* Noddy Holder - born in Walsall, singer/rhythm guitarist for Slade.Suzanne Paul:Winner of New Zealand's 'Dancing with the Stars'2007
* Dave Holland - jazz bassist.
* Eric Idle - actor and comedian.
* Charles Jones (1866-1959) - gardener and photographer.
* Jamelia - musician originally from Birmingham now living in Wolverhampton.
* Mervyn King - Governor of the Bank of England, educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School.
* Beverley Knight - soul singer.
* Sir Richard Leveson - Vice Admiral of the Fleet for Life, hero of the Battle of Cadiz, 1596.
* Denise Lewis - Olympic Gold Medallist born in West Bromwich and raised in Wolverhampton.
* Barbara "Babs" Lord - dancer in Pan's People.
* Hayley Price- Olympic gymnast in Los Angeles.
* Anita Lonsbrough - Olympic Gold Medallist in swimming.
* Sir Geoffrey Le Mesurier Mander - chairman of Mander Brothers, Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East, donor of Wightwick Manor to the National Trust.
* Miles Mander - early Hollywood film actor, director and novelist.
* John Marston the founder of the Sunbeam company, in Upper Villiers Street
* Mil Millington - journalist and novelist.
* Jimmy Mullen - Spent his whole career from 1938 to 1959 playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He also played for England 12 times.
* Alfred Noyes - poet.
* Brian Pendleton - rhythm guitarist with The Pretty Things in the sixties.
* Dora Penny - was the daughter of the Rector of Wolverhampton and a good friend of Edward Elgar and his family. She became immortalised as 'Dorabella' in the tenth of the Enigma Variations. Her autobiography 'Memories of a Variation' was penned under her married name of Mrs Richard Powell.
* Robert Plant - singer in Led Zeppelin, born in West Bromwich.
* Hugh Porter - Olympic cyclist, broadcaster and media personality.
* Lisa Potts - teacher and George Medal Holder.
* Enoch Powell - politician (Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton South West 1950 - 1974), poet, scholar and soldier.
* Oscar Gustave Rejlander - the "father of art photography".
* Carina Round - Singer/Songwriter
* Kevin Rowland - singer in Dexys Midnight Runners.
* Tessa Sanderson - gold medallist in the javelin throw, 1984 Olympic Games.
* Nigel Slater - food writer and journalist.
* Vikram Solanki - England and Worcestershire cricketer.
* Mark Speight - Television presenter
* Percy Stallard - racing cyclist, founder of the British League of Racing Cyclists and, as organiser of the 1942 Wolverhampton-Llangollen race, the father of massed-start cycle racing on public roads in Britain.
* Meera Syal - actress, novelist and comedian.
* Jack Taylor - referee, 1974 FIFA World Cup final.
* Maggie Teyte - soprano, creator of role of Melisande in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande.
* Thomas Turner - pioneer of sanitary disposal.
* Evelyn Underhill - mystic and Anglican writer.
* Sir Charles Pelham Villiers - member of Parliament for sixty-three years, holding the record for being the longest serving MP in Parliamentary history. A statue of him stands in West Park in Wolverhampton.
* Sir Charles Wheeler - sculptor and former president of the Royal Academy.
* Jonathan Wild - self-penned Chief Thieftaker General of Great Britain and Ireland.
* Bert Williams - Spent his whole career from 1945 to 1959 playing for Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. He also played for England 24 times.
* Billy Wright - captain of England and Wolverhampton Wanderers and for a long period of time the most capped English football player.
* Billy Wright - the Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary leader.
* David Wright - former UK Ambassador to Japan.
* Percy M. Young - musicologist, writer and composer.
* Josef Stawinoga - local hermit
* Jono Bacon - Software developer and journalist (Community manager of the Ubuntu Linux project)