Appleton (surname)

Appleton is an Anglo-Saxon locational surname.

It is borne by:

People

 * Alistair Appleton (born 1970), British television presenter
 * Charles Appleton (academic) (1841–1879), Oxford don and scholarly entrepreneur
 * Charles Appleton (cricketer) (1844–1925), English amateur cricketer
 * Charles William Appleton (1874–1945), vice president of the General Electric Company, judge and Assistant District Attorney in New York City
 * Colin Appleton (1936–2021), English football player and manager
 * Daniel Appleton (1785–1849), American publisher, founder of D. Appleton & Company
 * Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965), English Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on the ionosphere
 * Edwin Nelson Appleton (1877–1937), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Elizabeth Lachlan (1790–1849), née Appleton, British writer and education advocate
 * Francis R. Appleton (1854–1929), lawyer and member of the 400 during the Gilded Age
 * Frederick Charles Appleton (1835–1914), Australian actor
 * George Swett Appleton (1821–1878), American publisher
 * Henry Appleton (anarchist) ,
 * Henry Appleton (captain) (fl. 1650–1654), English captain in the navy and commodore
 * James Appleton (1786–1862), American abolitionist
 * Jean Appleton (1911–2003), Australian painter, art teacher and printmaker
 * John Appleton (disambiguation)
 * Jon Appleton (1939–2022), American composer, author and professor of music
 * Mason Appleton (born 1996), American ice hockey player
 * Michael Appleton (born 1975), English football manager and former player
 * Mike Appleton (1936–2020), British television producer
 * Natalie Appleton (born 1973), Canadian-born British singer
 * Nathan Appleton (1779–1861), American merchant, entrepreneur and politician
 * Nicole Appleton (born 1974), Canadian-born British singer, sister of Natalie Appleton
 * Ray Appleton (1941–2015), American jazz drummer
 * Ruel Ross Appleton (1853–1928), campaign manager for Mayor Gaynor of New York City
 * Samuel Appleton (merchant) (1766–1853), American merchant and philanthropist
 * Scott Appleton (1942–1992), American football player
 * Stevie Appleton, British singer
 * Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884), American author and artist
 * William Appleton (politician) (1786–1862), congressman from Massachusetts
 * Will Appleton (1889–1958), mayor of Wellington, New Zealand
 * William Sumner Appleton (1874–1947), founder Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
 * William M. Appleton (1920–2001), Pennsylvania politician
 * William Henry Appleton (1814–1899), American publisher
 * William Appleton (entrepreneur) (born 1961), American entrepreneur and technologist
 * William H. Appleton (1843–1912), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * William Thomas Appleton (1859–1930), Australian businessman, shipping agent and public servant

Fictional characters

 * the title character of Elizabeth Appleton, a 1963 novel by John O'Hara
 * Larry Appleton, from the TV series Perfect Strangers