Boynton (surname)

• Benny Boynton, early National Football League player and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Charles Lawrence Boynton, American botanist
• Sir Engleram Boynton, served in the First Barons' War. His descendants include Sir Matthew Boynton, 1st Baronet.
• Frank Ellis Boynton, self-taught American botanist, possibly the brother of Charles Boynton
• Henry V. Boynton, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient, eventually promoted to brigadier general
• Jack Boynton, American Contemporary Surrealist artist
• James S. Boynton, American politician and jurist
• John F. Boynton, an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an American geologist and inventor
• Lucy Boynton, English actress
• Nick Boynton, Canadian National Hockey League player
• Peter Boynton, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
• Ruth Boynton was a physician, researcher, and administrator
• Sandra Boynton, children's author and illustrator
• Thomas Jefferson Boynton, American lawyer, journalist and judge
• Captain Joseph Boynton, served as an officer in the colonial American army in Queen Anne's War. He was the son of John Boynton who arrived in America on the John of London and was an original settler of Rowley, MA.
• Solomon Boynton, great grandson of Captain Joseph Boynton, served in the American army in the Battle of Chelsea Creek and the Battle of White Plains during the American Revolutionary War.
• Silas W. Boynton, great grandson of Solomon Boynton, served in Company K of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Union Army in the US Civil War.