Bedford (surname)

Bedford is an English toponymic surname which indicates someone from Bedfordshire County, and the name derived from the name of a Saxon monk 'Bede' combined with the old English ford 'a river crossing'. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Brian Bedford (1935–2016), English actor
 * Celia Frances Bedford (1904–1959), British artist
 * David Bedford (1937–2011), British composer and musician


 * Davis Evan Bedford (1898–1978), British physician
 * Frances Bedford (born 1953), Australian politician
 * Francis Bedford (photographer) (1815–1894), English photographer
 * Francis Donkin Bedford (1864–1954), English book illustrator
 * Francis Octavius Bedford (1784–1858), English architect
 * Fred Bedford (1902–1972), English professional footballer
 * Gerald Augustus Harold Bedford (1891–1938), British entomologist


 * Herbert Bedford (1867–1945), British composer, author and artist
 * Ian Bedford (1930–1966), English cricketer
 * Jan Bedford (born 1945), Australian gymnast
 * James Bedford (1893–1967), psychologist and the first person ever cryonically preserved
 * John Bedford (c. 1720 – 1791), English iron worker and industrialist
 * Kodie Bedford, Australian screenwriter
 * Lou Singletary Bedford (1837–?), American poet, author, editor
 * Luke Bedford (born 1978), British composer
 * Mark Bedford (born 1961), English musician, songwriter and composer
 * Martyn Bedford (born 1959), British novelist and literary critic
 * Olivia Cajero Bedford (1938–2022), American politician
 * Paddy Bedford (c. 1922 – 2007), Australian artist
 * Peter Bedford (born 1947), Australian rules footballer and cricketer
 * Sybille Bedford (1911–2006), German-born English writer
 * Walter Bedford (1879–1939), English cricketer