Ridgeway (surname)

Ridgeway is an English surname.

People

 * Aden Ridgeway (born 1962), Australian politician
 * Brian Ridgeway (born 1984), Canadian football player
 * C. W. Ridgeway, American football coach in the United States
 * Charles Ridgeway DD (1841–1927), the Bishop of Chichester from 1908 to 1919
 * Dante Ridgeway (born 1984), former American football wide receiver
 * Elizabeth Ridgeway (died 1684), English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
 * Fred Ridgeway (1953–2012), Irish-born stage and television actor
 * Frederick Ridgeway (1848–1921), Anglican bishop from 1901 until his death 20 years later
 * Fritzi Ridgeway (1898–1961), American actress of the silent era
 * Greg Ridgeway (born 1973), American criminologist
 * Hassan Ridgeway (born 1994), American football defensive tackle
 * James Ridgeway (1936–2021), American investigative journalist
 * Jessica Ridgeway (2002–2012), American murder victim
 * Joseph West Ridgeway GCB GCMG KCSI PC (1844–1930), British civil servant and colonial governor
 * Luann Ridgeway (born 1956), citizen-legislator and an attorney
 * Marian Elizabeth Ridgeway (died 1982), American political scientist
 * Matthew B. Ridgeway (1895–1993), US general
 * Peter Ridgeway, Australian prosecutor and a former deputy director of Prosecutions in Fiji
 * Colonel Richard Kirby Ridgeway VC, CB (1848–1924), Irish officer in the British Army, who received the Victoria Cross
 * Rick Ridgeway (born 1949), mountaineer, adventurer, environmentalist, writer, filmmaker and businessman
 * Suzanne Ridgeway (1918–1996), American film actress
 * Thomas Ridgeway, multiple people
 * West Ridgeway (1844–1930), British civil servant and colonial governor
 * William Ridgeway (1853–1926), British archaeologist and philologist
 * William Ridgeway (law reporter) (1765–1817), Irish barrister and law reporter

Fictional characters

 * Jordan Ridgeway, fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of Our Lives
 * Paula Ridgeway, key character in Random Harvest by James Hilton
 * Ridgeway, key character in The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
 * Linnet Doyle née Ridgeway, a character in Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile