Mainwaring

The surname Mainwaring ( or ) is an Anglo-Norman territorial surname deriving from "Mesnil Warin" (or "Mesnilwarin", "Mesnilvarin", "Mesnil Varin"), from the village of Le Mesnil Varin (= "the manor of Warin"), now Saint-Paër, Normandy.

Notable people with the surname include:

People

 * Billy Mainwaring (1941–2019), Welsh international second row rugby union player who played for Aberavon RFC
 * Chris Mainwaring (1965–2007), Australian rules footballer and TV presenter
 * Daniel Mainwaring (1902–1977), American novelist and screenwriter
 * George Mainwaring (1642-1695), English politician
 * George Boulton Mainwaring (c. 1773–unknown), British politician
 * Greg Manwaring (b. 1962), Classical animator, director, member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Mainwaring (1919–2014), who was awarded an MC in fierce fighting after D-Day in the Normandy Campaign
 * Henry Mainwaring (c. 1586-1653), pirate, lawyer, author and diplomat
 * John Mainwaring (1724–1807), English theologian and first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel
 * Marion Mainwaring (1922–2015), American novelist
 * Matty Mainwaring (b. 1990), English footballer and boxer
 * Sam Mainwaring (1841–1907), Welsh socialist and syndicalist trade union activist
 * William Mainwaring (1884–1971), British miner and politician
 * William Mainwaring (English politician) (1735–1821), English politician, father of George Boulton Mainwaring
 * Ranulph Mainwaring, Justice of Chester in the reign of Richard I (1189–1199)
 * Sam Mainwaring, Jr., labor activist in Britain, South Africa and the United States; nephew of Sam Mainwaring

In fiction

 * Captain George Mainwaring, commander of the Home Guard platoon in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army
 * Elizabeth Mainwaring, Captain Mainwaring's wife
 * Barry Mainwaring, Captain Mainwaring's long-lost brother


 * Lil Mainwaring, In Movie "Marnie" - Alfred Hitcock's movie - Sean Connery's Main Line Philadelphia former sister in law
 * Veronica Mainwaring, Protagonist in Demon Lover, 1929 novel by Dion Fortune

Transportation

 * Mainwaring (HBC vessel), operated by the HBC from 1807-1820, see Hudson's Bay Company vessels