# Butterworth (surname)

Butterworth is an English toponymic surname. It is derived from the former township of Butterworth, Lancashire, England, an area in which the surname was still very common as of 2014.

## People

Notable people who share this surname include:
* Aiden Butterworth (born 1961), retired English football player
* Albert Butterworth (1912–1991), English professional footballer
* Alexander Kaye Butterworth (1854–1946), General Manager of the North Eastern Railway
* Allen Butterworth (1939–1974), British archaeology and museum curator
* Anthony Butterworth (born 1945), British immunologist
* Archie Butterworth (1912–2005), Irish inventor and racing motorist
* Arthur Butterworth (1923–2014), English composer
* Benjamin Butterworth (1837–1898), American lawyer and politician
* Benjamin Butterworth (cricketer) (1832–1879), Australian cricketer
* Bob Butterworth (born 1942), former Florida attorney general
* Brad Butterworth (born 1959), yachtsman from New Zealand
* Brian Butterworth (born 1944), cognitive neuropsychologist at University College London researching speech, reading and mathematics
* Charles Butterworth (actor) (1896–1946), film actor, comedian of the 1930s and 1940s
* Charles Butterworth (philosopher) (born 1938), American professor of political philosophy
* Donna Butterworth (1956–2018), American actress
* Edgar Ray Butterworth (1847–1921), American funeral director
* Edwin Butterworth (1812–1848), English topographer of Lancashire
* Eliza Butterworth (born 1993), British-American actress
* Elizabeth Butterworth (born 1949), English artist
* Eugene Butterworth (born 1984), South African rugby union footballer
* Frank Butterworth (1870–1950), American football player and coach
* Frank Butterworth (footballer) (1914–1999), English amateur footballer
* Garry Butterworth (born 1969), British professional footballer
* George Butterworth (1885–1916), English composer killed in the First World War
* George Butterworth (cartoonist) (1905–1988), British political, strip and sports cartoonist, later a book illustrator
* George Butterworth (psychologist) (1946–2000), British professor of psychology who studied infant development
* Herbert Butterworth (1902–1938), English professional footballer
* Horace Butterworth (1868–1939), American university football coach in 1907
* Hugh Butterworth (1885–1915), English cricketer, schoolteacher and soldier
* Ian Butterworth (born 1964), English professional footballer
* Jack Butterworth, Baron Butterworth (1918–2003), British lawyer
* James Butterworth (1771–1837), English author
* Jez Butterworth (born 1969), English playwright and screenwriter
* Jim Butterworth (entrepreneur), American technology entrepreneur and documentary filmmaker
* Jim Butterworth (politician), Habersham County, Georgia Commission Chairman and State Senator
* Jon-Allan Butterworth (born 1986), British paralympic cyclist
* Joseph Butterworth (1770–1826), English law bookseller and politician
* Louise Butterworth (born 1985), English pole vaulter
* Luke Butterworth (born 1983), Tasmanian cricketer
* Mary Butterworth (1686–1775), Colonial American counterfeiter
* Michael Butterworth (born 1947), British author and publisher
* Mike Butterworth (1924–1986), British comic book writer
* Miriam Butterworth (1918–2019), American educator, politician, and activist
* Nick Butterworth (born 1946), British children's author and illustrator
* Oliver Butterworth (1915–1990), American children's author and educator
* Oliver Butterworth (violinist), British violinist, music educator, and arts administrator
* Peter Butterworth (1919–1979), English comic actor
* Ryan Butterworth (born 1981), Zimbabwean cricketer
* Stephen Butterworth (1885–1958), the inventor of the Butterworth filter
* Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), English actor
* Tyler Butterworth (sergeant), American military personnel and police officer
* Wally Butterworth (1901–1974), American radio announcer and host
* W. E. Butterworth (1929–2019), who wrote as W. E. B. Griffin
* William Butterworth (businessman) (1864–1936), American businessman and early Deere & Company president
* William John Butterworth (1801–1856), English colonel and Governor of the Straits Settlements
* William Walton Butterworth (1903–1975), American career diplomat and ambassador

## Fictional characters

* Chastity Butterworth, a comedy character played by Gemma Whelan in various live and TV shows