Axtell (surname)

Axtell is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:


 * Charles Axtell (1859–1932), American sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
 * Daniel Axtell (1622–1660), captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial of King Charles I
 * Frances Cleveland Axtell (1866–1953), one of the first female legislators in the United States of America
 * George C. Axtell (1920–2011), Lieutenant General of the United States Marine Corps.
 * James Axtell (born 1941), professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia
 * James Wickliffe Axtell (1852–1909), newspaper man and prominent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
 * Robert Axtell, professor in Computational Social Science at George Mason University
 * Samuel Beach Axtell (1819–1891), controversial Chief Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court