Wakefield (surname)
Wakefield is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), former British bowel surgeon known for fraudulent research
- Captain Arthur Wakefield (1799–1843), who died in the Wairau Affray, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
- Charity Wakefield (born 1980), English actress
- Charles Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, (1859-1941), British peer and founder of Castrol
- Daniel Wakefield (1776–1846), writer on political economy
- Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798–1858), son of Edward Wakefield
- Edward Wakefield (1774–1854), English philanthropist and statistician
- Edward Wakefield (New Zealand politician) (1845–1924), son of Felix Wakefield, New Zealand politician and journalist
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), influential theorist on colonization
- Edward Wakefield (British politician) (1903–1969), British civil servant and Conservative Member of Parliament
- Elsie Maud Wakefield, (1886-1972), English mycologist
- Felix Wakefield (1807–1875), brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
- Gilbert Wakefield (1756–1801), English scholar and controversialist
- Howard Wakefield, (1884-1941), American baseball player
- Humphry Wakefield, (born 1936), English baronet
- James Wakefield, (1825-1910), United States politician
- Jenn Wakefield, (born 1989), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jerningham Wakefield (1820–1879), son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, New Zealand politician and author of Adventures in New Zealand
- John Allen Wakefield, (1797-1873), United States politician and military leader
- John Peter Wakefield (1915–1942), British racing car driver
- Norman Arthur Wakefield (1918–1972), Australian naturalist
- Priscilla Wakefield (nee Priscilla Bell, 1751–1832), author
- Rhys Wakefield, (born 1988), Australian actor
- Richard Wakefield American poet and literary critic
- Robert Wakefield (died 1537), English linguist and scholar
- H. Russell Wakefield, (1888-1964), English author
- Peter Wakefield (disambiguation)
- S. A. Wakefield (1927–2009), Australian author
- Tim Wakefield (born 1966), pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
- Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal, (1898-1983), British politician
- Colonel William Wakefield (1801–1848), who founded Wellington, New Zealand, brother of Edward Gibbon Wakefield
In fiction:
- Elizabeth Wakefield and Jessica Wakefield twins from Sweet Valley High.
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