Wadsworth (surname)
Wadsworth is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
- Adelaide E. Wadsworth, American painter
- Alexander S. Wadsworth, U.S. Navy officer; fought in the War of 1812; eponym of three ships
- Alexander Wadsworth , helped design Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Alfred Powell Wadsworth, British journalist, editor of The Guardian
- Andre Wadsworth, American football player
- Benjamin Wadsworth, American clergyman and educator; president of Harvard University
- Charles Wadsworth, American classical pianist and musical promoter
- Daniel Wadsworth, American artist, arts patron, and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
- Decius Wadsworth U.S. Army officer and cryptologist; developed a progressive cipher system
- Derek Wadsworth, British composer and arranger
- Edward Wadsworth, British artist
- E. S. Wadsworth, American merchant
- Elijah Wadsworth American Militia officer during the Revolutionary War and Major General during the War of 1812, early pioneer of Ohio
- Frank W. Wadsworth, American Shakespearean scholar, author, and sportsman
- Frederick Wadsworth, American businessman and politician
- George Wadsworth, American diplomat; specialized in the Middle East
- George Wadsworth, British politician; MP for the East Riding of Yorkshire
- James Wadsworth, American general in the Revolution; delegate to the Continental Congress
- James Wadsworth American pioneer, land agent, philanthropist
- James S. Wadsworth, American politician, philanthropist, and general in the Civil War
- James Wadsworth American businessman and Mayor of Buffalo, New York
- James Wolcott Wadsworth, American politician; U.S. representative from New York
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr., American politician; U.S. representative and U.S. Senator from New York
- James Jeremiah Wadsworth, U.S. diplomat; ambassador to the UN
- Jeremiah Wadsworth, American sea captain; delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from Connecticut
- Harrison Wadsworth, Jr. American engineering professor of statistical methods, author and pioneer in quality control science
- Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer
- Mabel Sine Wadsworth, American birth control activist and women's health educator
- Marc Wadsworth, British anti-racist campaigner
- Martha Wadsworth Brewster, American poet and writer.
- Michael Wadsworth, British sociologist and socio-medical researcher
- Mick Wadsworth, British football coach
- Peleg Wadsworth, U.S. Army officer in the American Revolution; grandfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Philip Wadsworth, American merchant and politician
- Priscilla Wadsworth, American artist
- Walter Wadsworth, British football player
- William Wadsworth, British Puritan, American colonial pioneer, co-founder of Hartford, Connecticut, ancestor of the poet Ezra Pound
- William Wadsworth, Brigadier General of New York Militia in the War of 1812
