Cunliffe
Cunliffe as a Lancashire surname derives from a place in near Rishton.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Baron Cunliffe, of Headley in the County of Surrey
- Barry Cunliffe, CBE,, Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford
- Bill Cunliffe, jazz pianist and composer
- Billy Cunliffe, British rugby league footballer
- Charles Cunliffe, English cricketer
- Cunliffe, Brooks, bank founded in Blackburn, Lancashire, England in 1792
- Cunliffe baronets, of Liverpool in the County of Lancaster
- Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft, British aircraft manufacturer of the World War II era
- Cunliffe-Owen baronets, of Bray in the County of Berkshire
- Cunliffe-Owen Concordia, 1940s British twin-engined small airliner built by Cunliffe-Owen Aircraft
- Dan Cunliffe, English footballer
- David Cunliffe, Former New Zealand Labour Party Leader and Leader of the Opposition
- David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, JP, DL, British peer and politician
- Sir Foster Cunliffe, 3rd Baronet, founder of the Royal Society of British Bowmen
- Foster Cunliffe, English cricketer
- Freddie Cunliffe, British television/film actor
- Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, English industrialist
- Jack Cunliffe, rugby league footballer of the 1930s…60s for Great Britain, England, British Empire XIII, and Wigan
- Jason Cunliffe, a character from the British soap opera Hollyoaks
- Jason Cunliffe , Guamanian footballer
- Jimmy Cunliffe, English footballer who played as an inside forward
- John Cunliffe , British children's book author who created Postman Pat and Rosie and Jim
- John Cunliffe , English footballer
- John Cunliffe, English football player
- Lawrence Cunliffe, British Labour Party politician
- Marcus Cunliffe, British historian and academic
- Mitzi Cunliffe, American sculptor
- Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Earl of Swinton, British peer
- Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton, GBE, CH, MC, PC, British Conservative politician
- R. Cunliffe Gosling DL, Victorian-era footballer
- Robert Cunliffe
- Roger Cunliffe, 3rd Baron Cunliffe, retired management consultant and former project manager
- Samuel Cunliffe Lister, 2nd Baron Masham, English baron and industrialist
- Sir William Cunliffe Brooks, 1st Baronet, son of Samuel Brooks
- Stella Cunliffe MBE, Director of Statistics at the British Home Office
- Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Countess of Swinton, crossbench member of the House of Lords
- Tom Cunliffe, yachting journalist, author and broadcaster
- Walter Cunliffe, 1st Baron Cunliffe, GBE, Governor of the Bank of England from 1913 to 1918
- Whit Cunliffe, English comic singer
