Bigelow (surname)

Bigelow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Abijah Bigelow (1775–1860), United States Representative from Massachusetts
 * Albert Bigelow (1906–1993), former United States Navy officer turned peace activist and Quaker
 * Bob Bigelow (1953–2020), retired National Basketball Association player
 * Charles A. Bigelow (1862–1912), American actor
 * Charles Bigelow (type designer) (born 1945), American type historian, professor, and designer
 * Daniel Bigelow (1824–1905), American lawyer and politician
 * Doug Bigelow (1928–1996), Australian rules footballer with Essendon Football Club
 * Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), Pittsburgh City Engineer, Director of Public Works and "father of Pittsburgh's parks"
 * Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), American author and clubwoman
 * Elliot Bigelow (1897–1933), Major League Baseball player
 * Elmer Charles Bigelow (1920–1945), posthumous recipient of the United States Medal of Honor
 * Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814–1879), American inventor of weaving machines
 * Frank Bigelow (born 1954), American politician. Served in the California State Assembly from 2012 to 2022
 * Frank Hagar Bigelow (1851–1924), United States astronomer and meteorologist
 * Frederick Ellsworth Bigelow (1873–1929), American bandmaster and composer
 * George Tyler Bigelow (1810–1878), chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
 * Harry Bigelow (1874–1950), American lawyer and big-game hunter
 * Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American oceanographer and marine biologist
 * Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), American surgeon and Harvard University professor
 * Herbert S. Bigelow (1870–1951), United States Representative from Ohio
 * Hobart B. Bigelow (1834–1891), American politician and 50th Governor of Connecticut
 * Horace Bigelow (1898–1980), American chess master and organizer
 * Howard E. Bigelow (1923–1987), American mycologist
 * Iva Bigelow (later Iva Bigelow Weaver; 1875–1932), American singer
 * Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), American physician, botanist, architect and professor
 * John Bigelow (1817–1911), American lawyer
 * John Bigelow Jr. (1854–1936), United States Army officer and son of John Bigelow
 * John Milton Bigelow (1804–1878), American physician and botanist
 * John P. Bigelow (1797–1872), mayor of Boston, Secretary of State of Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
 * Julian Bigelow (1913–2003), American pioneering computer engineer
 * Kathryn Bigelow (born 1951), American film director
 * Lettie S. Bigelow (1848/49 – 1906), American author
 * Lewis Bigelow (1785–1838), United States Representative from Massachusetts
 * Lisa Jenn Bigelow, American writer of children's books and young adult novels
 * Lucius A. Bigelow (1892–1973), American chemistry professor
 * Poultney Bigelow (1855–1954), American journalist and author
 * Rensselaer R. Bigelow (1848–1907), justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
 * Robert Bigelow (born 1945), hotel magnate


 * Rolla Bigelow (1878–1952), American banker
 * Scott Bam Bam Bigelow (1961–2007), American professional wrestler
 * Stephen Bigelow, Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
 * Timothy Bigelow (soldier) (1739–1790), Continental Army colonel in the American Revolutionary War
 * Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) (1767–1821), Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
 * Tom Bigelow (born 1939), former racing driver
 * Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913–2005), Canadian surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker
 * William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926), American physician and collector of Japanese art