Wentworth (surname)
Wentworth is a surname which may refer to:People
- Ali Wentworth, American actress
- Austin Wentworth, American football player
- Benning Wentworth, governor of New Hampshire under King George II and King George III
- D'Arcy Wentworth, surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I
- D'Arcy Wentworth, Jr., son of D'Arcy Wentworth, army officer and New South Wales politician
- Erastus Wentworth, educator, Methodist Episcopal minister and missionary to China
- Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford, British peer
- Henry Wentworth, de jure Lord Despenser and grandfather of Jane Seymour
- Jeff Wentworth, member of the Texas State Senate from San Antonio
- John Wentworth , colonial Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire
- John Wentworth , jurist and revolutionary leader in New Hampshire
- John Wentworth , colonial governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia
- John Wentworth Chicago mayor and U.S Congressman
- John Wentworth Jr., Continental Congress delegate from New Hampshire
- John Wentworth , British television actor
- Margery Wentworth, mother of Jane Seymour
- Marion Craig Wentworth, American playwright, poet, and suffragist
- Moses J. Wentworth, American politician
- Patricia Wentworth, mystery writer
- Paul Wentworth, English Member of Parliament
- Sir Peter Wentworth, English Member of Parliament, brother of Paul
- Sir Peter Wentworth , English Parliamentarian, grandson of the above Peter
- Philip Wentworth, English knight and Usher of the King's Chamber
- Stephen G. Wentworth, founder of Wentworth Military Academy
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth, Lord Chamberlain of England
- Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth, son of the 1st Baron Wentworth, blamed for England's loss of Calais to France in 1558
- Thomas Wentworth , English Member of Parliament and lawyer
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland, Royalist military leader during the English Civil War
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman, a major figure in the events leading up to the English Civil War
- Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth, son of the 1st Earl of Cleveland, Member of Parliament and also a Royalist military leader
- Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty
- Thomas Wentworth, British major-general in charge of land forces during the 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias
- Vera Wentworth, British suffragist
- William Wentworth, founder of the Wentworth family in America
- William Charles Wentworth I, Australian explorer, journalist and politician
- William Charles Wentworth IV, Australian politician, and noted anti-Communist
Fictional characters
- Frederick Wentworth, a main character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion
- Richard Wentworth, pulp magazine character as The Spider
- Lovey Howell, wife of Thurston Howell III of Gilligan's Island
