Foote

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

A

 * Adam Foote (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Albert E. Foote (1846–1895) American mineralogist
 * Alexander Foote (1905-1956) British-born Soviet agent
 * Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), American naval officer, a Union admiral
 * Arthur Foote (1853–1937), American composer
 * Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933), American engineer

B

 * Barry Foote (born 1952), American baseball player

C

 * Callan Foote (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Christopher Spencer Foote (1935–2005), American chemist

D

 * Diane Foote (born 1954), New Zealand Olympic gymnast

E

 * Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) American physicist
 * Elisha Foote (1809–1883), American judge, inventor, and mathematician
 * Elizabeth Erny Foote (born 1953), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2010
 * Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), American scientist, inventor and feminist

F

 * Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850–1911), British army officer and musician

G

 * George William Foote (1850–1915), English radical journalist and secularist
 * Georgia May Foote (born 1991), English actress and model

H

 * Henry Bowreman Foote (1904–1993), British recipient of the Victoria Cross, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps
 * Henry S. Foote (1804–1880), US Senator and Governor of Mississippi (1852–1854)
 * Hezekiah William Foote (1813–1899), American Confederate veteran, attorney, planter and state politician from Mississippi
 * Huger Lee Foote (1854–1915), American planter and state senator from Mississippi
 * Horton Foote (1916–2009), American author and playwright

J

 * James Foote (1829 - 1895), Australian politician
 * Jeff Foote (born 1987), American professional basketball player
 * John Clarke Foote (1822–1895), Australian politician
 * John J. Foote (1816–1905), New York politician
 * Reverend John Weir Foote (1904–1988), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
 * Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician and 14th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

K

 * Kenneth Foote (born 1948), American engineer

L

 * Larry Foote (born 1980), American football player
 * L.B. Foote (1873–1957) Canadian photographer
 * Lucinda Foote (1770/71–?), American teen who attempted to enroll at Yale College, but was rejected for her gender

M

 * Mary Foote (1872–1968), American painter; Carl Jung associate
 * Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), American writer and illustrator

N

 * Nathaniel Foote (1592–1644), founder of Wethersfield, Connecticut

P

 * Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), American naval officer

R

 * Richard H. Foote (1918–2002), American entomologist
 * Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912), British geologist who is considered the "Father of Indian Prehistory"

S

 * Samuel Foote (1720–1777), Cornish dramatist and actor
 * Selina Foote, (born 1985), New Zealand visual artist
 * Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American historian

T

 * Thomas Foote (1598–1687), English grocer and baronet
 * Thomas M. Foote (1808–1858), American diplomat

W

 * William Henry Foote (1794–1869), American Presbyterian minister in the Antebellum South