Biddle (surname)

Biddle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Philadelphia family

• Clement Biddle (1740–1814), American Revolutionary soldier and quartermaster general
• Nicholas Biddle (naval officer) (1750–1778)
• Edward Biddle (1738–1779), lawyer and statesman
• Nicholas Biddle (banker) (1786–1844)
• Thomas Biddle (1790–1831), War of 1812 hero killed in a duel with a congressman
• Richard Biddle (1796–1847), author and politician
• Charles John Biddle (1819–1873), congressman and editor
• George Biddle (1885–1973), artist
• James Biddle (1783–1848), naval officer
• William P. Biddle (1853–1923), the 11th Commandant of United States Marine Corps
• Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (1874–1948), Philadelphia millionaire
• Francis Beverly Biddle (1886–1968), US Attorney General and judge in Nuremberg trials
• Peter Biddle (born 1966), Microsoft engineer
• Livingston L. Biddle, Jr. (1918–2002), third chairman of National Endowment for the Arts
• Sydney Biddle Barrows (born 1952), escort agency owner and autobiographer
• John Biddle (yachting cinematographer) (1925–2008), America's Cup Hall of Fame cinematographer and lecturer
• John Biddle (Michigan) (1792–1859), politician and congressman
• Jesse Biddle (born 1991), Philadelphia Phillies player

Other Biddles

• Adrian Biddle (1952–2005), English cinematographer
• Ellen Biddle Shipman (1869–1950), American landscape architect
• Hester Biddle (c. 1629–1697), English Quaker writer and preacher
• James Biddle Eustis (1834–1884), United States senator and ambassador from Louisiana
• John Biddle (Unitarian) (1615–1662), English Unitarian
• Joseph Franklin Biddle (1871–1936), United States congressman from Pennsylvania
• Mary Duke Biddle (1887–1960), American philanthropist
• Melvin E. Biddle (born 1923), WWII Medal of Honor recipient, member of the 517th PRCT
• Owen Biddle (musician) (born 1977), The Roots bass guitarist and songwriter in Philadelphia
• Stephen Biddle (born 1959), foreign policy scholar
• Taye Biddle (born 1983), American football player