Butterworth (surname)

Butterworth is an English toponymic surname. It is derived from the former township of Butterworth, Lancashire, England, ^[1] an area in which the surname was still very common as of 2014. ^[2]

People

Notable people who share this surname include:

• Aiden Butterworth (born 1961), retired English football player
• Albert Butterworth (1912–1991), English professional footballer
• Alexander Kaye Butterworth (1854–1946), General Manager of the North Eastern Railway
• Allen Butterworth (1939–1974), British archaeology and museum curator
• Anthony Butterworth (born 1945), British immunologist
• Archie Butterworth (1912–2005), Irish inventor and racing motorist
• Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014), English composer
• Benjamin Butterworth (1837–1898), American lawyer and politician
• Benjamin Butterworth (cricketer) (1832–1879), Australian cricketer
• Bob Butterworth (born 1942), former Florida attorney general
• Brad Butterworth (born 1959), yachtsman from New Zealand
• Brian Butterworth (born 1944), cognitive neuropsychologist at University College London researching speech, reading and mathematics
• Charles Butterworth (actor) (1896–1946), film actor, comedian of the 1930s and 1940s
• Charles Butterworth (philosopher) (born 1938), American professor of political philosophy
• Clara Butterworth (1888–1996), English actress and light operatic soprano
• Donna Butterworth (1956–2018), American actress
• Edgar Ray Butterworth (1847–1921), American funeral director
• Edwin Butterworth (1812–1848), English topographer of Lancashire
• Eliza Butterworth (born 1993), British-American actress
• Elizabeth Butterworth (born 1949), English artist
• Eugene Butterworth (born 1984), South African rugby union footballer
• Frank Butterworth (1870–1950), American football player and coach
• Frank Butterworth (footballer) (1914–1999), English amateur footballer
• Garry Butterworth (born 1969), British professional footballer
• George Butterworth (1885–1916), English composer killed in the First World War
• George Butterworth (cartoonist) (1905–1988), British political, strip and sports cartoonist, later a book illustrator
• George Butterworth (psychologist) (1946–2000), British professor of psychology who studied infant development
• Herbert Butterworth (1902–1938), English professional footballer
• Horace Butterworth (1868–1939), American university football coach in 1907
• Hugh Butterworth (1885–1915), English cricketer, schoolteacher and soldier
• Ian Butterworth (born 1964), English professional footballer
• Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth (1918–2003), British lawyer
• James Butterworth (1771–1837), English author
• Jez Butterworth (born 1969), English playwright and screenwriter
• Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur), American technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker
• Jim Butterworth (politician), Habersham County, Georgia Commission Chairman and State Senator
• Jon-Allan Butterworth (born 1986), British paralympic cyclist
• Joseph Butterworth (1770–1826), English law bookseller and politician
• Louise Butterworth (born 1985), English pole vaulter
• Luke Butterworth (born 1983), Tasmanian cricketer
• Mary Butterworth (1686–1775), Colonial American counterfeiter
• Michael Butterworth (born 1947), British author and publisher
• Mike Butterworth (1924–1986), British comic book writer
• Miriam Butterworth (1918–2019), American educator, politician, and activist
• Nick Butterworth (born 1946), British children's author and illustrator
• Oliver Butterworth (1915–1990), American children's author and educator
• Oliver Butterworth (violinist), British violinist, music educator, and arts administrator
• Peter Butterworth (1919–1979), English comic actor
• Ryan Butterworth (born 1981), Zimbabwean cricketer
• Stephen Butterworth (1885–1958), the inventor of the Butterworth filter
• Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), English actor
• Tyler Butterworth (sergeant), American military personnel and police officer
• Wally Butterworth (1901–1974), American radio announcer and host
• W. E. Butterworth (1929–2019), who wrote as W. E. B. Griffin
• 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
• William Walton Butterworth (1903–1975), American career diplomat and ambassador

Fictional characters

• Chastity Butterworth, a comedy character played by Gemma Whelan in various live and TV shows

References

1. 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.
2. A History of British Surnames. Routledge. 2014. ISBN   9781317901457 – via Google Books.