Lonsdale (surname)

Lonsdale is an English surname which has its origins in the description of the valley of the River Lune in Cumbria and Lancashire. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Angela Lonsdale (born 1970), English actress
 * Anne Lonsdale (born 1941), British sinologist, third President of New Hall, University of Cambridge
 * Bruce Lonsdale (1949–1982), Canadian politician
 * Charles Lonsdale (born 1965), British diplomat
 * Chris Lonsdale (born 1987), Bermudian former cricketer and footballer
 * Christopher Lonsdale (1886–1952), Canadian founder and first headmaster of Shawnigan Lake School, British Columbia
 * David Lonsdale (born 1963), English actor
 * Derrick Lonsdale (1924–2024), British-born American pediatrician and researcher
 * Edmund Lonsdale (1843–1913), Australian politician
 * Frederick Lonsdale (1881–1954), English dramatist
 * Gordon Lonsdale, alias of Konon Molody (1922–1970), Soviet spy
 * Harry Lonsdale (1932–2014), American scientist, businessman, and politician
 * Horatio Walter Lonsdale (1844–1919), English painter and designer
 * James Lonsdale (painter) (1777–1839), English portraitist
 * James Rolston Lonsdale (1865–1921), Northern Irish politician
 * John Lonsdale (1788–1867), Principal of King's College, London, later Bishop of Lichfield
 * John Lonsdale, 1st Baron Armaghdale (1850–1924), Northern Irish businessman and politician
 * Dame Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971), Irish-born British crystallographer
 * Keiynan Lonsdale (born 1991), Australian actor
 * Michael Lonsdale (1931–2020), French actor
 * Neil Lonsdale (1907–1989), New Zealand editorial cartoonist
 * Richard Lonsdale (1913–1988), British Army officer in the Parachute Regiment in World War II
 * Roger Lonsdale, British author and academic
 * Rupert Lonsdale (1905–1999), British submarine commander, prisoner of war and Anglican clergyman
 * Shawn Lonsdale (1969–2008), American videographer and critic of the Church of Scientology
 * Tommy Lonsdale (1882–1973), English footballer
 * William Lonsdale (1794–1871), English geologist and palaeontologist
 * William Lonsdale (colonist) (1799–1864), supervised the founding of Port Phillip, later named Melbourne, Australia
 * Willie Lonsdale (born 1986), New Zealand cricketer