Boothby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Basil Boothby (1910–1990), British diplomat
- Benjamin Boothby (1803–1868), judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet (1744–1824), British poet and friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Sir Brooke Boothby, 10th Baronet (1856–1913), British diplomat
- David Boothby (born 1944), Canadian Police Chief
- Dora Boothby (1881–1970), English tennis player
- Frances Boothby (fl. 1669–1670), English playwright
- Frederic E. Boothby (1845–1923), American railroad manager and politician
- Guy Boothby (1867–1905), Australian-born author of the Dr. Nikola novels
- Ian Boothby, comic book writer, comedian
- Josiah Boothby (1837–1916), Australian public administrator
- Neil Boothby, child psychologist
- Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby (1900–1986), British politician
- Robert Tuite Boothby (1871–1941), British banker, father of Robert Boothby
- Scott Boothby (born 1973), American hammer thrower
- Thomas Boothby of Tooley, founder of the Quorn Hunt in Leicestershire, England
- Thomas Wilde Boothby (1839–1885), aka T. Wilde Boothby, a politician in South Australia
- Valerie Boothby (1906–1982), German actress
- William Boothby (1829–1903), the Returning Officer for the first Australian federal election, after whom the Division of Boothby was named
- William "Cocktail" Boothby (1862–1930), bartender, mixologist, author of The World's Drinks And How To Mix Them
Basil Boothby CMG was a British ambassador.
Benjamin Boothby was a South Australian colonial judge, who was removed from office for misbehaviour, one of four Australian supreme court judges removed in the 19th century.
Sir Brooke Boothby, 6th Baronet was a linguist, translator, poet and landowner, based in Derbyshire, England. He was part of the intellectual and literary circle of Lichfield, which included Anna Seward and Erasmus Darwin. In 1766 he welcomed the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Ashbourne circles, after Rousseau's short stay in London with Hume. Ten years later, in 1776, Boothby visited Rousseau in Paris, and was given the manuscript of the first part of Rousseau's three-part autobiographic Confessions. Boothby translated the manuscript and published it in Lichfield in 1780 after the author's death, and donated the document to the British Library in 1781.
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