Palfrey (surname)

Palfrey is an occupational surname, denoting a person responsible for the maintenance and provision of saddle horses. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Daf Palfrey (born 1973), Welsh television, film and video director, producer and writer
 * Deborah Jeane Palfrey (1956–2008), operated an escort agency in Washington, D.C., convicted in 2008 of racketeering, money laundering, etc.
 * Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831–1889), American historian, born in Boston, Massachusetts son of J. G. Palfrey
 * John G. Palfrey (1796–1881), American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
 * John Palfrey (born 1972), faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
 * Judith Palfrey (born 1943), the T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
 * Lisa Palfrey, Welsh television actress best known for playing the character of Rhiannedd Frost in the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm
 * Mianne Palfrey, American tennis player
 * Polly Palfrey Woodrow (1906–1997), American tennis player
 * Quentin Palfrey (born 1974), American lawyer
 * Sarah Palfrey Cooke (1912–1996), female tennis player from the United States
 * Sean Palfrey (born 1968), Welsh professional darts player who currently plays in the Professional Darts Corporation
 * Simon Palfrey, English Scholar at Oxford University and a Fellow in English at Brasenose College, Oxford University
 * Stephen Palfrey Webb (1804–1879), 3rd & 12th Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts (1842–1845, 1860–1862) and 6th Mayor of San Francisco (1854–1855)
 * Thomas Palfrey (born 1953), currently (as of 2007) the Flintridge Professor of Economics and Political Science at the California Institute of Technology
 * William Palfrey (1741–1780), American Patriot born in Boston, Massachusetts
 * Yolande Palfrey (1957–2011), British actress