 Stanley J. Weyman (1855 in Ludlow – 1928) was an English writer of historical romance.Notable people associated with the town include Charles Badham (1813–1884), a Victorian scholar and professor at Sydney University and Thomas Wright (1810–1877) an English antiquarian and writer.Sir Charles Hastings (1794–1866), a pioneering Victorian doctor and founder of the British Medical Association, was born in Ludlow.