Billington (surname)

Billington is an English surname arising from several places in Lancashire and Staffordshire, and possibly Bedfordshire.

Notable people with the surname include:


 * Adeline Billington (1826–1917), English actress and teacher
 * James Billington (1847 – 1901), English executioner
 * Thomas Billington (1872 – 1902), English executioner
 * William Billington (1875 – 1952), English executioner
 * John Billington (1880 – 1905), English executioner
 * Tom Billington (1958–2018), English professional wrestler best known as Dynamite Kid
 * Clyde Billington Jr. (1934-2018), American businessman, chemist, and politician
 * Craig Billington (born 1966), retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * Elizabeth Billington (1765–1818), British opera singer
 * Francelia Billington (1895–1934), American actress
 * Fred Billington (1862–1917), English singer and actor
 * Geoff Billington, British showjumper
 * James H. Billington (1929-2018), United States Librarian of Congress
 * John Billington (1580s–1630), an immigrant on the Mayflower and first Englishman to be hanged in New England
 * John Billington (actor) (1830–1904), English actor
 * Joseph Billington, English footballer
 * Kevin Billington (1934-2021), British film director
 * Michael Billington (actor) (1941–2005), British film and television actor
 * Michael Billington (critic) (born 1939), the drama critic of The Guardian
 * Michael Billington (activist), activist in the LaRouche movement, author of Reflections of an American Political Prisoner
 * Polly Billington, radio reporter
 * Rachel Billington (born 1942), British author
 * Ray Allen Billington (1903–1981), American historian
 * Teresa Billington-Greig (1877–1964), suffragette and one of 70 founders of the Women's Freedom League
 * Teddy Billington (1882–1966), US Olympic cyclist
 * William Billington (poet) (1825–1884), English poet
 * Wilf Billington (1930–2023), British footballer who also played in Australia