Mainwaring
The surname Mainwaring, from the village of Le Mesnil Varin, now Saint-Paër, Normandy. Notable people with the surname include:
- Billy Mainwaring, Welsh international second row rugby union player who played for Aberavon RFC
- Chris Mainwaring, Australian rules footballer and TV presenter
- Daniel Mainwaring, American novelist and screenwriter
- George Boulton Mainwaring, British politician
- George Mainwaring, English politician
- John Mainwaring, English theologian and first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel
- Harry Mainwaring, Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Mainwaring, who has died aged 94, was awarded an MC in fierce fighting after D-Day in the Normandy Campaign
- Henry Mainwaring, pirate, lawyer, author and diplomat
- Marion Mainwaring, American novelist
- Matty Mainwaring, English footballer and boxer
- Ranulph Mainwaring, Justice of Chester in the reign of Richard I
- Sam Mainwaring, Welsh socialist and syndicalist trade union activist
- Sam Mainwaring, Jr., labor activist in Britain, South Africa and the United States; nephew of Sam Mainwaring
- William Mainwaring, British miner and politician
- William Mainwaring , English politician, father of George Boulton Mainwaring
- Greg Manwaring, Classical animator, director, member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
In fiction
- Captain George Mainwaring, commander of the Home Guard platoon in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army
- Lil Mainwaring, In Movie "Marnie" - Alfred Hitcock's movie - Sean Connery's Main Line Philadelphia former sister in law
