Armistead

Armistead is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:
 * Bill Armistead (born 1944), American politician from Alabama
 * George Armistead (1780–1818), American military officer who served as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812
 * James Armistead, American slave and spy in the American Revolution
 * Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Army general
 * Samuel G. Armistead (1927–2013), American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian and Hispanist
 * Walker Keith Armistead, United States Army brigadier general
 * Wilson Armistead, (1819–1868) British merchant, anti-slavery abolitionist and author

Given name:
 * Armistead Abraham Lilly (1878–1956), American lawyer, politician, and businessperson
 * Armistead Burt, U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1843 to 1853
 * Armistead I. Selden Jr., U.S. Representative from Alabama from 1953 to 1969
 * Armistead Mason Dobie, legal educator and federal judge
 * Armistead Maupin, American writer
 * Armistead Burwell Smith IV, American musician, member of Pinback
 * Armistead Thomson Mason, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1816 to 1817
 * Armistead (c. 1820–1844), slave of US President John Tyler, killed in the USS Princeton disaster