- U.S. literary historian and teacher.
- U.S. psychologist and lexicographer.
- U.S. historian and scholar (brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike).
- English actress.
- Edward Lee. 1874–1949, US psychologist, who worked on animals and proposed that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments (Thorndike's law or law of effect)
- Dame (Agnes) Sybil . 1882–1976, British actress
