Wentworth (surname)
Wentworth is a surname which may refer to:
People[edit]
- Ali Wentworth, American actress
- Anton H. Wentworth (1897–2001), American politician
- Austin Wentworth (born 1990), American football player
- Benning Wentworth (1696–1770), governor of New Hampshire under King George II and King George III
- D'Arcy Wentworth (1762–1827), surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I
- D'Arcy Wentworth, Jr. (1793–1861), son of D'Arcy Wentworth, army officer and New South Wales politician
- Erastus Wentworth (1813–1886), educator, Methodist Episcopal minister and missionary to China
- Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1732–1799), British peer
- Harold Wentworth (1904-1965), American lexicographer
- Henry Wentworth (c. 1448 – between 1499 and 1501), de jure Lord Despenser and grandfather of Jane Seymour
- George Wentworth (disambiguation), several people
- Sir George Wentworth (of Woolley) (1599–1660), English MP for Pontefract 1640–1642
- Sir George Wentworth (of Wentworth Woodhouse) (1609–?), English MP for Pontefract 1640–1644
- George A. Wentworth (1835–1906), American teacher and author of textbooks
- Jeff Wentworth (born 1940), member of the Texas State Senate from San Antonio
- John Wentworth (disambiguation), several people
- John Wentworth (Lieutenant-Governor) (1671–1730), colonial Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire
- John Wentworth (judge) (1719–1781), jurist and revolutionary leader in New Hampshire
- John Wentworth (governor) (1737–1820), colonial governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia
- John Wentworth (mayor) (1815–1888) Chicago mayor and U.S Congressman
- John Wentworth Jr. (1745–1787), Continental Congress delegate from New Hampshire
- John Wentworth (actor) (1908–1989), British television actor
- Margery Wentworth (c. 1478 – 1550), mother of Jane Seymour
- Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942), American playwright, poet, and suffragist
- Martha Wentworth (1889–1974), American actress
- Moses J. Wentworth, American politician
- Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (1941–2020), Australian political journalist
- Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961), mystery writer
- Paul Wentworth (1533–1593), English Member of Parliament
- Paul Wentworth (spy) (c. 1736-1793) a lawyer and plantation owner in Surinam
- Sir Peter Wentworth (1529–1596), English Member of Parliament, brother of Paul
- Sir Peter Wentworth (Parliamentarian) (1592–1675), English Parliamentarian, grandson of the above Peter
- Philip Wentworth (1424–1464), English knight and Usher of the King's Chamber
- Stephen G. Wentworth (1811–1897), founder of Wentworth Military Academy
- Thomas Wentworth (disambiguation), several people
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501–1551), Lord Chamberlain of England
- Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525–1584), son of the 1st Baron Wentworth, blamed for England's loss of Calais to France in 1558
- Thomas Wentworth (Recorder of Oxford) (c. 1568–1628), English Member of Parliament and lawyer
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591–1667), Royalist military leader during the English Civil War
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), English statesman, a major figure in the events leading up to the English Civil War
- Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth (1613–1665), son of the 1st Earl of Cleveland, Member of Parliament and also a Royalist military leader
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty
- Thomas Wentworth (general), British major-general in charge of land forces during the 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias
- Vera Wentworth (1890 – 1957), British suffragist
- William Wentworth (disambiguation), several people
- William Wentworth (elder), founder of the Wentworth family in America
- William Charles Wentworth I (1790–1872), Australian explorer, journalist and politician
- William Charles Wentworth IV (1907–2003), Australian politician, and noted anti-Communist
- William P. Wentworth (1839–1896), American architect
Fictional characters[edit]
- Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion), a main character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion
- Richard Wentworth, pulp magazine character as The Spider
- Lovey (Wentworth) Howell, wife of Thurston Howell III of Gilligan's Island
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