Wake (surname)

Wake is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Brian Wake (born 1982), English footballer
 * Bronwyn Wake, Australian scientist
 * Cameron Wake (born 1982), American football linebacker
 * David B. Wake (1936–2021), American biologist and herpetologist
 * Harry Wake (1901–1981), English footballer
 * Hereward the Wake (c. 1035 — c. 1072), 11th-century Anglo-Saxon leader
 * Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet (1876-1963), British Army general
 * Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet (1916–2017), British Army officer and countryman
 * Isaac Wake (1580–1632), English diplomat and political commentator
 * Jenny Wake, New Zealand actor and theatre director
 * John Wake (born 1953), English cricketer
 * Jehanne Wake (born 1966), British biographer
 * Joan Wake (1884–1974), British historian
 * Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell (1297–1349), wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
 * Marvalee Wake (born 1939), American biologist
 * Melissa Anne Wake, New Zealand paediatric academic
 * Nancy Wake (1912–2011), New Zealand born Australian who served as a British spy during World War II
 * Neil Vincent Wake (born 1948), United States federal judge
 * Ric Wake, record producer
 * Robert A. Wake, 1966 champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
 * Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (1297–1349), English baron
 * Thomas Wake (disambiguation)
 * William Wake (1657–1737), Archbishop of Canterbury
 * Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet (1742–1785), British politician
 * William Wake (cricketer) (1852–1896), English amateur first-class cricketer
 * William Wake (governor), governor of Bombay