Chilton (surname)

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


 * Alex Chilton (1950–2010), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, the lead singer of the Box Tops
 * Allenby Chilton (1918–1996), English football player
 * Bart Chilton (1960–2019), commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
 * Charles Chilton (1917–2013), BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer
 * Charles Chilton (zoologist) (1860–1929), New Zealand
 * Chris Chilton (1943–2021), British footballer
 * David Chilton (1951–1997), pastor and Christian Reconstructionist
 * David Barr Chilton, Canadian financial author
 * Emelie C. S. Chilton (1838-1864), American poet, magazine editor
 * Frederick Oliver Chilton Australian brigadier
 * Glen Chilton, Canadian-Australian professor, author, ornithologist and behavioural ecologist
 * Horace Chilton (1853–1932), printer, lawyer, and Democratic US Senator from Texas
 * James Chilton (c. 1556 – 1620), Mayflower settler
 * John Chilton (1932–2016), British jazz trumpeter and writer
 * Kevin Patrick "Chily" Chilton (born 1954), 4-star general in the USAF and NASA astronaut
 * Mark Chilton (born 1976), British cricketer
 * Mark H. Chilton (born 1970), mayor of Carrboro, North Carolina
 * Mary Chilton (1607 – c. 1679), passenger on the Mayflower
 * Maurice Chilton (1898–1956) British Army officer
 * Max Chilton (born 1991) British racing driver competing in Formula 1
 * Robert H. Chilton (1815–1879), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; chief of staff for Robert E. Lee
 * Selina Chilton (born 1981), English actress
 * Shirley Chilton (1923–2013), American businesswoman and politician
 * Thomas Chilton (1798–1854), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Baptist clergyman, ghostwriter of David Crockett's autobiography
 * Thomas H. Chilton (1899–1972), chemical engineer and professor
 * Tom Chilton (born 1985), British auto racing driver
 * Tom Chilton (game developer) for the World of Warcraft game
 * William Chilton (printer) (1815–1855), British printer, socialist, atheist, and evolutionist
 * William E. Chilton (1856–1939), United States Senator from West Virginia
 * William Parish Chilton (1810–1871), lawyer, jurist, and politician serving Alabama and later the Confederate States of America