Root (surname)
Root is a surname, and may refer to:People
- Alan Root, Anglo-Kenyan wildlife filmmaker
- Amanda Root, British actress
- Amos Root, American beekeeper
- Antony Root, British scriptwriter and drama producer
- Bill Root, Canadian ice-hockey player
- Bill Root , American bridge player
- Billy Root, English cricketer
- Budd Root, American comic book artist
- Charlie Root, American baseball player
- Edmund Root, American naval officer
- Edward Root, Australian rugby league footballer
- Eleazer Root, American educator and Episcopalian priest
- Elias Root, New York businessman and politician
- Elihu Root, American statesman and 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- Elisha K. Root, American inventor
- Erastus Root, US congressman from, and lieutenant governor of, New York
- Fred Root, English cricketer
- George Frederick Root, American songwriter
- Gladys Root, American criminal defense attorney
- Gloria Root, American model
- Howard Root, American-born British Anglican priest and theologian
- Jack Root, professional name of American light heavyweight boxing champion Janos Ruthuly
- Jane Root, British television executive
- Jesse Root, American jurist
- Jim Root, American guitarist
- Jim Root , American football player and coach
- Joan Root, British ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
- Joe Root, English cricketer
- Joe Root American hermit from Erie, Pennsylvania
- Joel Root, American author of a journal of his voyage around the world on a sealing ship
- John B. Root, French pornographic filmmaker
- Joseph Pomeroy Root, American doctor, politician, and diplomat
- John Wellborn Root, American architect
- John Wellborn Root, Jr., American architect
- Jon Root, American volleyball player
- Leon Root, American physician
- Martha Root, American teacher of the Bahá'í Faith
- Richard B. Root, American ecologist, entomologist and evolutionary biologist
- Richard K. Root, American epidemiologist
- Robert Root-Bernstein, MacArthur fellow and professor of life sciences at Michigan State University
- Sidney Root, American engineer and businessman
- Stephen Root, American actor
- Tina Root, American singer
- Tom Root, American Emmy-winning TV writer and producer
- Waverley Lewis Root, American journalist
- Wilbur M. Root, American politician
- William Lucas Root, American information theorist
- William Pitt Root, American poet
Fictional characters
- Enoch Root, fictional character in The Baroque Cycle novels by Neal Stephenson
- Hugo Root, fictional character in the comic book series Preacher
