Wakefield (family name)
Wakefield is a family name of Anglo-Saxon origin, which is particularly common in English-speaking countries.
Originally the name occurred regionally around Wakefield in the English county of West Yorkshire .
Name bearer
- Andrew Wakefield (born 1957), British surgeon
- Arthur Wakefield (1799–1843), English captain and representative of the New Zealand Company
- Charity Wakefield (born around 1980), British actress
- Charles Wakefield Cadman (1881-1946), American composer
- Daniel Bell Wakefield (1798-1858), English attorney, attorney general, and judge
- Edward Wakefield (philanthropist) (1774-1854), English farmer, reformer, political writer and realtor
- Edward Wakefield (politician) (1845-1924), New Zealand journalist and politician
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), British economist and statesman
- Edward Jerningham Wakefield (1820–1879), English politician, publicist and adventurer
- Elsie Maud Wakefield (1886–1972), British mushroom expert
- Felix Wakefield (1807–1875), British surveyor, officer and colonist
- Henriette Wakefield (1879–1975), American opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher
- Herbert Russell Wakefield (also Horace Russell Wakefield ; 1888–1964), English writer
- James Wakefield (1825-1910), American politician
- Mary Wakefield (1853-1910), English opera singer (alto)
- John Wakefield (soccer player) (born 1934), English soccer goalkeeper
- John Wakefield (singer) (born John Darling ; * 1936), British opera singer (tenor)
- John Peter Wakefield (1915–1942), British racing car driver
- Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832), English philanthropist, Quaker, writer, and feminist
- Rhys Wakefield (born 1988), Australian actor
- Tim Wakefield (born 1966), American baseball player
- William Hayward Wakefield (1801–1848), English officer, founder of Wellington
See also
- Wakefield (family) , family whose members were instrumental in the colonization of New Zealand
Web links
- Wakefield on surnamedb.com