Armitage (surname)

Armitage is a surname. It may originate from West Yorkshire, England, during the Anglo-Saxon period.

Persons
Notable people with the name include:
 * Alan Armitage (born 1930), English cricketer
 * Albert Armitage (1864–1943), Scottish explorer
 * Alison Armitage (born 1965), British actress
 * Allan Armitage (born 1946), American professor of horticulture
 * Arnold Armitage (1899–1991), British-American artist and illustrator
 * Bernard Armitage (1890–1976), English physician
 * Catharine Armitage (1944–2020), British painter
 * Cecil Hamilton Armitage (1869–1933), British colonial administrator in West Africa
 * Charles Armitage (1849–1917), English cricketer
 * David Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * David Armitage (historian) (born 1965), British historian
 * David Armitage (footballer) (born 1988), Australian footballer
 * David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979), British ornithologist
 * Delon Armitage (born 1983), English rugby union footballer
 * Edward Armitage (1817–1896), English painter
 * Edward Liddall Armitage (1887–1967), English stained glass artist
 * Edward Armitage (cricketer) (1891–1957), English cricketer
 * Elkanah Armitage (1794–1876), English industrialist
 * Ethel Armitage (1873–1957), British archer
 * Flora Anne Armitage (1911–1995), British-born American biographer and novelist
 * Frank Armitage (1924–2016), Australian-born American painter and muralist for Disney
 * George Armitage (born 1942), American film director
 * Goody Armitage (fl 1643), American innkeeper
 * Guy Armitage (born 1991), English rugby union player
 * Harry Armitage (1901–1973), English footballer
 * Heather Armitage (born 1933), British athlete
 * Iain Armitage (born 2008), American child actor
 * John Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * John Armitage (politician) (1920–2009), Australian politician
 * John Armitage (editor) (1910–1980), British editor of Encyclopædia Britannica
 * Karole Armitage (born 1954), American dancer and choreographer
 * Ken Armitage (1920–1952), English footballer
 * Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002), British sculptor
 * Lamduan Armitage (1968–2004), formerly unidentified Thai decedent in Yorkshire
 * Louis Armitage (1921–2000), English footballer
 * Michael Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Michael Armitage (artist) (born 1984), Kenyan painter
 * Michael Armitage (politician) (born 1949), former Australian politician
 * Michael Armitage (RAF officer) (1930–2022), Royal Air Force commander
 * N. Peter Armitage (born 1971), American physicist
 * Norman Armitage (1907–1972), American Olympic fencer
 * Peter Armitage (statistician) (1924–2024), English medical statistician
 * Peter Armitage (actor) (1939–2018), British actor
 * Reginald Armitage (1898–1954), British composer, better known as Noel Gay
 * Reginald S. Armitage (1892–1955), vice-president of forest company Price Brothers Limited, in Canada.
 * Richard Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Richard Armitage (agent) (1928–1986), English talent agent
 * Richard Armitage (actor) (born 1971), English actor
 * Richard Armitage (politician) (born 1945), American politician
 * Robert Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
 * Robert Armitage (politician) (1866–1944), British Member of Parliament for Leeds Central
 * Robert Perceval Armitage (1906–1990), British colonial administrator in Africa
 * Robert Armitage (GC) (1905–1982), British bomb disposal expert and George Cross recipient
 * Rosemary Armitage (born 1955), Australian politician
 * Simon Armitage (born 1963), British poet, novelist and playwright
 * Steffon Armitage (born 1985), rugby union footballer
 * Steve Armitage (born 1944), English-born Canadian sports reporter
 * Thomas Armitage (1824–1890), British physician and founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind
 * Tom Armitage (1848–1922), English cricketer
 * Vernon Armitage (1842–1911), English cricketer and lawyer
 * William Edmond Armitage (1830–1873), American clergyman

Fictional characters

 * Armitage, a character in the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson
 * Armitage Hux, general of the First Order in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
 * Detective-Judge Armitage, a character in a spin-off from Judge Dredd
 * Frank Armitage, character played by Keith David in the film They Live.
 * Mrs Armitage, eponymous heroine of a series of books by Quentin Blake
 * Arthur Armitage, a character in G. K. Chesterton's short story "The Finger of Stone"
 * Henry Armitage, a character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror"
 * Jake Armitage, a Shadowrunner in the SNES RPG Shadowrun (SNES)
 * Naomi Armitage, an android in the anime series Armitage III
 * Willy Armitage, an IMF agent in the TV series Mission: Impossible
 * The Armitage family are the central antagonists of the 2017 American horror film Get Out.
 * Marivel Armitage, a character in the video game Wild Arms 2