Wake (surname)
Wake is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brian Wake, English footballer
- Cameron Wake, American football linebacker
- David B. Wake, biologist and herpetologist
- Harry Wake, English footballer
- Hereward the Wake, 11th-century Anglo-Saxon leader
- Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet, British Army general
- Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet, British Army officer and countryman
- Isaac Wake, English diplomat and political commentator
- John Wake, English cricketer
- Jehanne Wake, British biographer
- Joan Wake, British historian
- Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell, wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
- Marvalee Wake, American biologist
- Melissa Anne Wake, New Zealand paediatric academic
- Nancy Wake, New Zealand born Australian who served as a British spy during World War II
- Neil Vincent Wake, United States federal judge
- Ric Wake, record producer
- Robert A. Wake, 1966 champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
- Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell, English baron
- Thomas Wake
- William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet, British politician
- William Wake , English amateur first-class cricketer
- William Wake, governor of Bombay