Laurie Lee
 Laurence Edward Alan Laurie Lee MBE (26 June 1914 – 13 May 1997) was an English poet novelist and screenwriter who was brought up in the village of Slad and went to the Central Boys' School Stroud Gloucestershire. His most famous work was an autobiographical trilogy which consisted of Cider with Rosie (1959) As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). The first volume recounts his childhood in the Slad Valley.