| Date | Description |
| 1895 | Friedrich Engels, German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist & co-author of The Communist Manifesto, cremated |
| 1895 | H G Wells wrote The Invisible Man whilst living in Maybury Road |
| 1896 | H G Wells wrote The War of The Worlds (set in Woking and Horsell Common) whilst living in Maybury Road |
| 1901-03 | George Bernard Shaw lived in Woking |
| 1902 | Samuel Butler, novelist, cremated and ashes scattered in the grounds |
| 1910 | Composer Dame Ethel Smyth moved to Woking |
| 4 July 1918 | Twins, Eric and Alec Bedser, Surrey & England cricketers, born (in Reading) |
| 13 April 1922 | John Braine, novelist, born in Woking |
| 1928 | Thomas Hardy cremated (his widow was, later, also cremated here) |
| 24 July 1935 | Leslie David 'Les' Reed, songwriter, musician and composer, born in Woking |
| 18 June 1941 | Delia Smith, tv chef, born in Woking |
| 24 August 1942 | Imogen Hassell, actress, born in Woking |
| 14 September 1943 | Ian Raymond Ogilvy, actor, born in Woking |
| 20 December 1943 | Jacqueline Pearce, actress, born (in Byfleet) |
| 8 May 1944 | Dame Ethel Smyth, composer, writer and suffragette, died in Woking |
| 15 July 1946 | Derek Griffths, children's entertainer and actor, born in Woking |
| 23 April 1948 | Tessa Wyatt, actress, born in Woking |
| 12 December 1948 | Richard John 'Rick' Parfitt born; brought up in Woking |
| 13 February 1950 | Peter Gabriel born (in Chobham); went to school in Horsell |
| 18 May 1953 | Brian Hooper, UK international pole-vaulter and multiple winner of tv's Superstars, was born in Woking (Sheerwater). |
| 12 June 1954 | Alan Turing cremated |
| 25 May 1958 | Paul Weller born |
| 1960 | Herman's Hermits performed at the Atalanta The Who performed at the Atalanta |
| 1961 | Fight scenes in the woods in the film On the Fiddle filmed on Horsell Common. |
| 4 September 1961 | Kenny Ball, jazz musician, performed at the Atalanta |
| 1962 | Sutton Place appears in the German film die playboys kommen erst um acht. |
| c.1963 | Peter Davison, actor, moved to Knaphill; attended Winston Churchill School. |
| 11 March 1963 | Emile Ford & The Checkmates performed at the Atalanta |
| 24 April 1963 | Comedian Sean Lock born (in Chertsey), raised in Woking, attending St John the Baptist School. |
| 19 August 1963 | The Rolling Stones performed at the Atalanta |
| 29 June 1964 | The Kinks performed at the Atalanta |
| 1 October 1964 | Harry Hill, comedian, born in Woking |
| 19 November 1964 | Susie Dent, lexicographer & tv presenter (Countdown) born in Woking |
| 1965 | Chobham Common represented Wild West open prairies, in Carry On Cowboy. |
| 1965 | Library in Commercial Road (ex Wesleyan Chapel) appears as a town hall in film The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery |
| 27 February 1965 | Tom Jones performed at the Atalanta |
| c.1966-73 | Nobel Prize and Booker Prize-winning author, Kazuo Ishiguro, attended Woking Grammar School |
| 21 March 1966 | The Small Faces performed at the Atalanta |
| 13 June 1966 | Stevie Wonder performed in Woking |
| 19 Sep, 31 Oct, 28 Nov & 19 Dec 1966 | Eric Clapton & Cream performed at the Atalanta |
| 5 September 1967 | Acker Bilk performed at the Atalanta |
| 16 July 1968 | The Equals performed at the Atalanta |
| 1970 | Part of the Doctor Who episode Spearhead from Space, was filmed at RHS Garden, Wisley |
| July 1970 | Jill Gosden (later model, pop star, actress & author Jilly Johnson) crowned as Miss Woking Whirl |
| 1972 | The Jam formed at Sheerwater Secondary School |
| 1972 | Pyrford Court as the Jasons' mansion in 'Wish you were here' story in Tales from the Crypt |
| 1972 | J. Paul Getty in Sutton Place, a documentary about the estate Sutton Place and its great importance to art history |
| 1976 | Pyrford Court is the US Ambassador's home in The Omen. His funeral, at the end of the film, was shot at the American Military Cemetery section of Brookwood Cemetery. |
| 1977 | Bob meets Laura at West Byfleet Station in Adventures of a Private Eye |
| 1977 | In Marquis de Sade's Justine, The church of St Nicholas, Pyrford, is used for exterior and interior scenes; Newark Priory is used for the robbers' camp. |
| 1981 | In Superman II, the set of a rural town in Idaho was erected on Chobham Common |
| 1982 | In Minder Series 3 Episode 7 The Birdman of Wormwood Scrubs, the office of solicitors, W Davies & Son, at 5 Chertsey Road (late the National Provincial Bank), was used for the scene where Ernie tries to collect his money from the National Mercia Bank. |
| 6 March 1984 | Jentina Rose Rees rapper, singer, songwriter and model, born in Woking |
| 1988 | Woking Station appears in Series 1 Episode 3 of The Train Now Departing - The Holiday Line. |
| 10 January 1992 | Barbara Couper, stage and screen actress, died in Woking, aged 89 |
| 1994 | The Spice Girls, newly formed, were tasked with choreographing their own dance routines, which they worked on at Trinity Studios in Knaphill, near Woking |
| 1995 | St Peter's Convent appears in A Midwinter's Tale |
| 1997 | Series 20 Episode 3 of Antiques Roadshow filmed at Woking Leisure Centre, Woking Park |
| 1998 | Church of St Mary the Virgin, Send appears in the pilot episode of Mrs Bradley Mysteries - Speedy Death. |
| 2000 | Churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Send appears in Mrs Bradley Mysteries Series 1 Episode 4 - The Worsted Viper. |
| 2004 | Some interior scenes in the film Yam filmed in Woking. |
| 2004 | Woking town centre (the martian sculpture) appears in the documentary, H. G. Wells and the War of the Worlds. |
| 24 May 2006 | Death of Eric Bedser, Surrey & England cricketer |
| 2007 | The Cricketers PH, Horsell appears in Lewis, series 1, episode 1, Whom the Gods Would Destroy |
| 2007 | Some scenes in Dead Eyes filmed in Woking |
| 2007 | Some of the short film Gabriel Ernest filmed on Horsell Common. |
| 31 December 2007 | Eric Clapton performed at Woking Leisure Centre |
| 2007-08 | Scenes in tv series Holby Blue filmed in Woking. The series was made at Longcross Studios, Chobham. |
| 2008 | Some scenes in The Things I Haven't Told You filmed in Woking |
| 2008 | Scenes in the short film The Night Window filmed in Bisley and Woking |
| 2008 | David Lloyd (gymnasium) and The House of Barns, Chobham (Hanson's yard) appear in Lewis Series 1 Episode 2 Old School Ties. The Police station interior was shot at Longcross Studios, Chobham. |
| 2009 | Woking Crematorium featured in Who Do You Think You Are? - Rory Bremner's Great grandfather was cremated there. |
| 2009 | Some scenes in I Bet You filmed in Woking |
| 31 December 2009 | Eric Clapton performed at Woking Leisure Centre |
| 4 April 2010 | Death of Sir Alec Bedser, Surrey & England cricketer |
| 2010 | Surrey History Centre (Viktoria's paperwork search) featured in The Airmail Orphan Part 2, a BBC documentary about Vietnamese orphan, Viktoria Cowley, who was brought to England from Saigon on the 1975 Daily Mail Airlift. |
| 2010 | Some scenes in Law & Order: UK Series 4 Episode 4 Duty of Care filmed in Dartmouth Avenue, Sheerwater. Other scenes filmed at Longcross Studios, Chobham. |
| 2010-2015 | Byfleet Manor was the location for Dowager Violet’s home, Dower House, in Downton Abbey |
| 2011 | Some scenes in Law & Order: UK Series 4 Episode 2 Denial (location of suspect's flat) filmed in Dartmouth Avenue, Sheerwater. Other scenes filmed at Longcross Studios, Chobham. |
| 2014 | Woking Station appears in the film The 7.39 |
| 2014 | Some scenes in the short film Bus Stop filmed in Woking |
| 2014 | Exteriors of Steve and Isabel's homes in'Til Death filmed in Woking |
| 2015 | Some scenes in the film The Dossier filmed in Woking |
| 2015 | Some scenes in the short film Kong filmed in Woking |
| 2015 | Scenes in the short film The Prism filmed in Woking |
| 3 January 2016 | BBC documentary, Britain's Muslim Soldiers, about the restoration of Woking's Muslim Cemetery and the soldiers who were buried there |
| 27 January 2016 | Woking Crematorium, Brookwood Cemetery and RHS Garden, Wisley featured in Series 4 Episode 7 of Michael Portillo's Great British Railway Journeys. He also visited Brooklands in this episode. |
| 2016 | Rick Parfitt cremated |
| 2016 | Scene in Netflix's series The Crown, filmed at Bisley Camp |
| 2016 | School exteriors in the film Spilt Milk filmed in Woking |
| 2016 | Scenes in the film Catching Clouds filmed in Woking |
| 2016 | Scenes in the short film Shakespeare Anonymous filmed in Woking |
| Sep 2016 | Scenes in The Commuter filmed at Worplesdon Station, as 'Tarrytown' in New York |
| 2017 | Woking Station appears in Least Used Stations Series1 Episode 12 Chetnole - Least Used Station in Dorset |
| 2017 | Trench battle scenes in Goodbye Christopher Robin filmed on Chobham Common |
| 2018 | Bisley Camp, appears briefly in episode 4 of tv series The Little Drummer Girl |
| 2018 | Platform scenes in Electric Dreams Series 1 Episode 3, The Commuter filmed on Woking station's platforms 5 & 6 |
| 2018 | The Spirit Mill and exterior scenes in Electric Dreams Series 1 Episode 4, Crazy Diamond filmed at McLaren Technology Centre |
| 2019 | Scenes in Hobbs & Shaw filmed at McLaren Technology Centre |
| 2020 | Scenes in short film Girl Happy filmed at Woking |
| 2020 | Judd Galaxy Mission Control Building (interiors and exteriors) in Avenue 5 Series 1 Episode 1 I Was Flying filmed at McLaren Technology Centre |
| 2020 | Judd HQ scenes in Avenue 5 Series 1 Episode 4 Wait a Minute, Then Who Was That on the Ladder? filmed at McLaren Technology Centre |
| 23 September 2021 | Filming on Goldsworth Park for Amazon's The Devil's Hour |
| 2022 | The Coruscant spaceport in Andor episode 4 was shot in the headquarters of McLaren (Andor is the US tv series based on Star Wars for Disney+) |
| 14 September 2022 | Funeral of Bernard Cribbins (who lived in Weybridge) took place at Woking Crematorium |
| 31 December 2022 | Eric Clapton & his band, The Promises, performed at Woking Leisure Centre (a tribute to Gary Brooker) |
| 2023 | Waterstones (Peacocks Centre), Marciano Lounge (Commercial Way) & Delightfully Greek (Market Walk) appear in Only Love Matters |
| 2023 | Bus stop scene in short film The Voyeur filmed at Woking Station bus stop |
| 2024 | Scene in short film Fifth Story filmed in Woking |
| 2024 | House scenes in short film The Ceremony filmed in Woking |