# Root (surname)

Root is a surname, and may refer to:

## People

* Alan Root (1937–2017), Anglo-Kenyan wildlife filmmaker
* Amanda Root (born 1963), British actress
* Amos Root (1839–1923), American beekeeper
* Antony Root (born 1954), British scriptwriter and drama producer
* Bill Root (ice hockey) (born 1959), Canadian ice-hockey player
* Bill Root (bridge) (1923–2002), American bridge player
* Billy Root (cricketer) (born 1992), English cricketer
* Budd Root (born 1958), American comic book artist
* Charles W. Root (1899-1968), American lawyer and politician
* Charlie Root (1899–1970), American baseball player
* Edmund Root (1881–1961), American naval officer
* Edward Root (1902–1986), Australian rugby league footballer
* Eleazer Root (1802–1887), American educator and Episcopalian priest
* Elias Root (1806–1880), New York businessman and politician
* Elihu Root (1845–1937), American statesman and 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Elisha K. Root (1808–1865), American inventor
* Erastus Root (1773–1846), US congressman from, and lieutenant governor of, New York
* Fred Root (1890–1954), English cricketer
* Frederic Woodman Root (1846-1916), American composer
* George Frederick Root (1820–1895), American songwriter
* Gladys Root (1905–1982), American criminal defense attorney
* Gloria Root (1948–2006), American model
* Grace W. Root (1869-1898), American actress and composer
* Howard Root (1926–2007), American-born British Anglican priest and theologian
* Jack Root (1873-1963), professional name of American light heavyweight boxing champion Janos Ruthuly
* Jacob Root (died 1861), American politician from Maryland
* Jane Root (born 1957), British television executive
* Jesse Root (1736–1822), Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
* Jesse L. Root (1860–1947), Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court
* Jim Root (born 1971), American guitarist
* Jim Root (gridiron football) (1931–2003), American football player and coach
* Joan Root (1936–2006), British (Kenyan-born) ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
* Joe Root (born 1990), English cricketer
* Joe Root (hermit) (1860–1912) American hermit from Erie, Pennsylvania
* Joel Root (1770–1847), American author of a journal of his voyage around the world (1802–1806) on a sealing ship
* John B. Root (born 1958), French pornographic filmmaker
* Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826–1885), American doctor, politician, and diplomat
* John Wellborn Root (1850–1891), American architect
* John Wellborn Root Jr. (1887–1963), American architect
* Jon Root (born 1964), American volleyball player
* Leon Root (1929–2015), American physician
* Martha Root (1872–1939), American teacher of the Bahá'í Faith
* Milo A. Root (1863–1917), justice of the Washington Supreme Court
* Olga von Root (1901 – unknown), Russian stage actress and singer
* Rebecca Root, English actress
* Richard B. Root (1936–2013), American ecologist, entomologist and evolutionary biologist
* Richard K. Root (1938–2006), American epidemiologist
* Robert Root-Bernstein (born 1953), MacArthur fellow and professor of life sciences at Michigan State University
* Sidney Root (1824–1897), American engineer and businessman
* Stephen Root (born 1951), American actor
* Tina Root (fl. 1980s-2010s), American singer
* Tom Root (born 1973), American Emmy-winning TV writer and producer
* Waverley Root (1903–1982), American journalist
* Wilbur M. Root (1842–1916), American politician
* William Lucas Root (1919–2007), American information theorist
* William Pitt Root (born 1941), American poet

## Fictional characters

* Enoch Root, fictional character in The Baroque Cycle novels by Neal Stephenson
* Hugo Root, fictional character in the comic book series Preacher