Butterworth (surname)
Butterworth is a toponymic surname based on the former township of Butterworth—an area now centred on Milnrow in Greater Manchester, England,[1] an area in which the surname was very common as of 2014.[2]
Notable people who share this surname include:
Born in the 17th century
- Mary Butterworth (1686–1775), Colonial American counterfeiter
Born in the 18th century
- James Butterworth (1771–1837), English author
- Joseph Butterworth (1770–1826), English law bookseller and politician
Born in the 19th century
- Alexander Kaye Butterworth (1854–1946), General Manager of the North Eastern Railway
- Benjamin Butterworth (cricketer) (1832–1879), Australian cricketer
- Benjamin Butterworth (1837–1898), American lawyer and politician
- Charles Butterworth (actor) (1896–1946), film actor, comedian of the 1930s and 1940s
- Edgar Ray Butterworth (1847–1921), American funeral director
- Edwin Butterworth (1812–1848), English topographer of Lancashire
- Frank Butterworth (1870–1950), American football player and coach
- George Butterworth (1885–1916), English composer killed in the First World War
- Horace Butterworth (1868-1939), American university football coach in 1907
- Hugh Butterworth (1885–1915), English cricketer, schoolteacher and soldier
- Stephen Butterworth (1885–1958), the inventor of the Butterworth filter
- William Butterworth (businessman) (1864–1936), American businessman and early Deere & Company president
- William John Butterworth (1801–1856), English colonel and Governor of the Straits Settlements
Born in the 20th century
Academics
- Allen Butterworth (1939-1974), British archaeology and museum curator
- Brian Butterworth (born 1944), cognitive neuropsychologist at University College London researching speech, reading and mathematics
- Charles Butterworth (philosopher) (born 1938), American professor of political philosophy
- George Butterworth (psychologist) (1946–2000), British professor of psychology who studied infant development
Creators
- Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014), English composer
- Elizabeth Butterworth (born 1949), English artist
- George Butterworth (cartoonist) (1905–1988), British political, strip and sports cartoonist, later a book illustrator
- Jez Butterworth (born 1969), English playwright and screen writer
- Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur), American technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker
- Michael Butterworth (born 1947), British author and publisher
- Mike Butterworth (1924–1986), British comic book writer
- Nick Butterworth (born 1946), British children's author and illustrator
- Oliver Butterworth (1915–1990), American children's author and educator
- W. E. Butterworth (born 1929), who writes as W. E. B. Griffin
Politics and law
- Bob Butterworth (born 1942), former Florida attorney general
- Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth (1918–2003), British lawyer
- Jim Butterworth (politician), Habersham County, Georgia Commission Chairman and State Senator
- Miriam Butterworth (2018–2019), American educator, politician, and activist
- William Walton Butterworth (1903–1975), American career diplomat and ambassador
- James Newby Butterworth, attorney, judge, Habersham County, Georgia
Performers
- Dean Butterworth (born 1976), English professional drummer
- Donna Butterworth (1956-2018), American actress
- Joseph Butterworth (born 1983), British professional drummer
- Oliver Butterworth (violinist), British violinist, music educator, and arts administrator
- Peter Butterworth (1919–1979), English comic actor
- Shane Butterworth, American actor, starred in the TV series The Bad News Bears
- Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), English actor
- Wally Butterworth (1901–1974), American radio announcer and host
Sportspeople
- Aiden Butterworth (born 1961), retired English football player
- Albert Butterworth (1912–1991), English professional footballer
- Archie Butterworth (1912–2005), Irish inventor and racing motorist
- Brad Butterworth (born 1959), yachtsman from New Zealand
- Eugene Butterworth (born 1984), South African rugby union footballer
- Garry Butterworth (born 1969), British professional footballer
- Herbert Butterworth (1902–1938), English professional footballer
- Ian Butterworth (born 1964), English professional footballer
- Jon-Allan Butterworth (born 1986), British paralympic cyclist
- Louise Butterworth (born 1985), English pole vaulter
- Luke Butterworth (born 1983), Tasmanian cricketer
- Michael Butterworth (American football) (born 1985), American football player
- Ryan Butterworth (born 1981), Zimbabwean cricketer
References
- R. Mckinley; G. Redmonds; T. King; D. Hey (2011). "Locative Surnames". Surnames, DNA, and Family History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 36 and 75. ISBN 9780191620362 – via Google Books.
- A History of British Surnames. Routledge. 2014. ISBN 9781317901457 – via Google Books.
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