
Frederick John Barrett was an English horse racing jockey. His greatest success came in 1888, when he won The Derby and the Jockeys' Championship.

Harry William Meyrick Bentley is a British jockey. He is retained rider for Qatar Racing and has been multiple champion jockey in Qatar.

Lord Marcus Talbot de la Poer Beresford, KCVO was an equerry and racing manager.
Robert Byerley (1660–1714), of Middridge Grange, Heighington, county Durham, and Goldsborough, Yorkshire, was an English soldier and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1685 and 1714. He is credited with capturing the Byerley Turk, a famous stallion considered one of the three major foundation sires of the Thoroughbred breed of race horse.

Thomas Darley served as Her Majesty's Consul to the Levant (Syria) during the reign of Queen Anne. He is famous for having bought an Arabian colt that became an important part of the history of the Thoroughbred breed.

Tony Dobbin is a retired Northern Irish National Hunt jockey who rode mainly in Great Britain. He rode the winner of the Grand National on Lord Gyllene in 1997 for owner Sir Stanley Clarke CBE, and won over 1,200 races during his career in the saddle. He was the regular stable jockey for Nicky Richards. He retired from racing on Thursday, 10 April 2008 riding the winner of his final race, Ballyvoge, at Carlisle Racecourse. He has assisted his wife, Rose Davidson, training racehorses since 2009.

Edward A. L. Dunlop is a British thoroughbred racehorse trainer.

John Forth was a British jockey and racehorse trainer. He is the oldest man to have ridden the Derby winner and one of the very few to have both ridden and trained the winner.

Thomas French (1844–1873), born in Liverpool, was a Derby winning English jockey.

Peter Valentine Purcell Gilpin was a British racehorse trainer. He was Champion Trainer in 1904 and his most notable winner was the filly Pretty Polly who won the Fillies Triple Crown in 1904. He also trained Comrade, the winner of the inaugural Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in 1920.
William Arnold "Billy" Higgs was a Thoroughbred horse racing jockey, trainer, owner and breeder, colloquially referred to as "Farmer Higgs". He was twice Champion Jockey of Britain.

Mark Johnston is a Scottish racehorse trainer based in Middleham, North Yorkshire, England.

Thomas Loates, born in Derby, England, was a three times British flat racing Champion Jockey and one of only seven jockeys to have won more than 200 races in a season in Great Britain. He won the English Triple Crown on Isinglass in 1892, as well as individual Classics on Donovan, Siffleuse and St. Frusquin. On Isinglass, he also won the 1894 Eclipse and 1895 Ascot Gold Cup and he had another top class win on Desmond in Newmarket's July Stakes in 1898.

Herbert Otto Madden, normally known as "Otto" was a four time British flat racing Champion Jockey

Alan Munro is an English flat racing jockey.

Gordon W. Richards was a British racehorse trainer specialising mainly in National Hunt racing. He trained two winners of the Grand National with Lucius in 1978 and Hallo Dandy in 1984.

Thomas Frederic Rimell, better known as Fred Rimell, was a British champion National Hunt racing jockey and horse trainer. He was champion jockey three times and leading trainer five times. Rimell was the first jumping trainer to earn £1 million in prize money for his owners.

Lieutenant-Commander Vere Anthony Francis Fane, 14th Earl of Westmorland, styled Lord Burghersh until 1922, was a British peer.

William Wheatley (1786-1848) was a British Classic winning jockey of the early 19th century. His father was the 1795 Derby-winning jockey, Anthony Wheatley.