# Fielding (surname)

Fielding or Feilding is an English surname.
Notable people with the surname include:

## Business, commerce, science, technology

* Amanda Feilding (born 1943), British artist, scientist and drug policy reformer
* Fred F. Fielding (born 1939), American lawyer
* Henry Barron Fielding (1805–1851), English botanist
* Roy Fielding (born 1965), American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification
* Thomas Fielding (born abt 1758), English engraver
* Sir Charles William Fielding (1863–1941), British businessman, landowner, farmer, writer, and civil servant

## Military

* Charles Fielding or Feilding (1738–1783), British naval officer
* Xan Fielding (1918–1991), British soldier, author, translator, journalist and traveller

## Public service and politics

* Sir John Fielding (1721–1780), English magistrate and social reformer
* Sir Leslie Fielding (1932–2021), British former ambassador
* Steve Fielding (born 1960), Australian senator

## Sports

* Frank Fielding (born 1988), English football goalkeeper
* Fred Fielding (1889–1918), Australian rules footballer
* Keith Fielding (born 1949), English rugby footballer
* Ross Fielding (1880–1947), English footballer
* William Fielding (1875–1946), New Zealand architect and lawn bowler

## The arts

* Copley Fielding (1787–1855), English painter
* Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), British author
* Emma Fielding (born 1966), English actress
* Fenella Fielding (1927–2018), English actress
* Harold Fielding (1916-2003), English theatre producer
* Helen Fielding (born 1958), English novelist and screenwriter, author of Bridget Jones's Diary
* Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist and dramatist, author of Tom Jones
* Janet Fielding (born 1953), Australian actress
* Joy Fielding (born 1945), Canadian novelist and actress
* Mantle Fielding (1865–1941), American architect, art and engraver historian, and tennis player
* Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress
* Michael Fielding (born 1982), English comedian and actor
* Noel Fielding (born 1973), English artist, comedian and actor
* Robert Fielding (born 1959), Australian artist, father of Zaachariaha
* Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), English novelist
* Susannah Fielding (born 1985), English actress
* Jerry Fielding (1922–1980), American composer, conductor, and musical director
* William John Fielding (1886–1973), American writer
* Yvette Fielding (born 1968), English broadcaster, producer and actress
* Zaachariaha Fielding, musician (with Electric Fields and artist, son of Robert

## Others

* Joseph Fielding (1797–1863), English leader of the Latter-day Saint movement
* William Feilding (disambiguation)

## Earls of Denbigh

* William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh
* Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh (1608–1675)
* George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond (1614–1665)
* William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and 2nd Earl of Desmond (1640–1685)
* Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh and 3rd Earl of Desmond (1668–1717)
* William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh and 4th Earl of Desmond (1697–1755)
* Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh and 5th Earl of Desmond (1719–1800)
** William Robert Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1760–1799)
* William Basil Percy Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh and 6th Earl of Desmond (1796–1865)
* Rollo William Basil Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh and 7th Earl of Desmond (1823–1892)
* Rollo Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh and 8th Earl of Desmond (1859–1939)
** Rollo Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1885–1937)
* William Rollo Stephen Feilding, 10th Earl of Denbigh and 9th Earl of Desmond (1912–1966)
* Rollo William Michael Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh and 10th Earl of Desmond (1943–1995)
* Alexander Stephen Rudolph Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh and 11th Earl of Desmond (b. 1970)

## Fictional characters

* Caroline Fairchild (née Fielding), leading character in Executive Stress
* Matt Fielding, fictional character in American television series Melrose Place