Anglo-Cornish those countries. There has been discussion over whether certain words found in North America have an origin in the Cornish language, mediated through Anglo-Cornish dialect. "Legends of the Fall", a novella by American author Jim Harrison, detailing the lives of a Cornish American family in the early 20th century, contains several Cornish language terms. These were also included in the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins as Col. William Ludlow and Brad Pitt as Tristan Ludlow. Some words in American Cornu-English are almost identical to those in Anglo-Cornish: South Australian Aborigines, particularly the Nunga, are said
Ludlow Dunne was born in Ludlow in 1958. The author P.D.James, Baroness James of Holland Park (1920-2014) spent part of her youth in Ludlow, and attended the British School there. Fr. John Fitzgerald (1927–2007) was a Carmelite friar, priest, poet and philosopher from Ludlow. Kate Charles (born 1950) is an American crime writer who now lives in Ludlow. Dick Heckstall-Smith (1934–2004) from Ludlow was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. Sheena Porter (born 1935) a British author of children's novels lives in Ludlow. The actor John Challis (born 1942) who played Boycie in "Only Fools & Horses" lives near Ludlow, as