Ashby (surname)

Ashby is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Aaron Ashby (born 1998), American baseball player
 * Alan Ashby (born 1951), American baseball player
 * Alexander Essebiensis (Alexander of Ashby) (c. 1220), English theologian and poet
 * Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987), Australian botanical artist and plant collector
 * Andy Ashby (born 1967), American baseball player
 * Carl Ashby (1914–2004), American artist
 * Christopher C. Ashby (born 1946), American ambassador to Uruguay, 1997–2001
 * David Ashby (born 1940), British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1997
 * David Ashby (cricketer) (1852–1934), New Zealand cricketer
 * Debee Ashby (born 1967), British adult model
 * Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986), American jazz harpist and composer
 * Earl Ashby (born 1921), Cuban baseball player
 * Edwin Ashby (1861–1941), Australian malacologist and ornithologist
 * Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby (1904–1992), British botanist and educator
 * Gary Ashby (born 1955), American baseball coach
 * George Ashby (martyr) (died 1537), martyred English monk
 * Godfrey Ashby (1930–2023), British Anglican bishop
 * Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director
 * Harry Ashby (golfer) (1946–2010), English golfer
 * Irving Ashby (1920–1987), American jazz guitarist
 * Jeffrey Ashby (born 1954), American naval aviator and astronaut
 * John Ashby (militiaman) (18th century), colonel in the Virginia Militia
 * John Ashby (Royal Navy officer) (1646–1693), English admiral during the War of the League of Augsburg
 * Joseph Ashby-Sterry (c. 1837–1917), English poet and novelist
 * Linden Ashby (born 1960), American actor
 * Madeline Ashby (born 1983), American-Canadian science fiction writer
 * Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British feminist and internationalist
 * Michael Ashby (1914–2004), British neurologist
 * Michael F. Ashby (born 1935), British metallurgist
 * Peter Ashby, British musician and composer
 * Ray Ashby, British rugby player
 * Richard Ashby (born 1972), British poker player
 * Sydney Francis Ashby (1874–1954), British mycologist and phytopathologist
 * Sylvia Rose Ashby (1908–1978), British-born Australian market researcher
 * Thomas Ashby (disambiguation)
 * Turner Ashby (1828–1862), Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War
 * William Ross Ashby (1903–1972), English psychiatrist and founder of the English school of cybernetics