# Armitage (surname)

Armitage is a surname. It may originate from West Yorkshire, England, during the Anglo-Saxon period.

## Persons

Notable people with the name include:
* Alan Armitage (born 1930), English cricketer
* Albert Armitage (1864–1943), Scottish explorer
* Alison Armitage (born 1965), British actress
* Allan Armitage (born 1946), American professor of horticulture
* Arnold Armitage (1899–1991), British-American artist and illustrator
* Bernard Armitage (1890–1976), English physician
* Catharine Armitage (1944–2020), British painter
* Cecil Hamilton Armitage (1869–1933), British colonial administrator in West Africa
* Charles Armitage (1849–1917), English cricketer
* David Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
** David Armitage (historian) (born 1965), British historian
** David Armitage (footballer) (born 1988), Australian footballer
** David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979), British ornithologist
* Delon Armitage (born 1983), English rugby union footballer
* Edward Armitage (1817–1896), English painter
* Edward Liddall Armitage (1887–1967), English stained glass artist
* Edward Armitage (cricketer) (1891–1957), English cricketer
* Elkanah Armitage (1794–1876), English industrialist
* Ethel Armitage (1873–1957), British archer
* Flora Anne Armitage (1911–1995), British-born American biographer and novelist
* Frank Armitage (1924–2016), Australian-born American painter and muralist for Disney
* George Armitage (1942–2025), American film director, screenwriter and producer
* Goody Armitage (fl 1643), American innkeeper
* Guy Armitage (born 1991), English rugby union player
* Harry Armitage (1901–1973), English footballer
* Heather Armitage (born 1933), British athlete
* Iain Armitage (born 2008), American child actor
* John Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
** John Armitage (politician) (1920–2009), Australian politician
** John Armitage (editor) (1910–1980), British editor of Encyclopædia Britannica
* Karole Armitage (born 1954), American dancer and choreographer
* Ken Armitage (1920–1952), English footballer
* Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002), British sculptor
* Lamduan Armitage (1968–2004), formerly unidentified Thai decedent in Yorkshire
* Louis Armitage (1921–2000), English footballer
* Michael Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
** Michael Armitage (artist) (born 1984), Kenyan painter
** Michael Armitage (politician) (born 1949), former Australian politician
** Michael Armitage (RAF officer) (1930–2022), Royal Air Force commander
* N. Peter Armitage (born 1971), American physicist
* Norman Armitage (1907–1972), American Olympic fencer
* Peter Armitage (statistician) (1924–2024), English medical statistician
* Peter Armitage (actor) (1939–2018), British actor
* Reginald Armitage (1898–1954), British composer, better known as Noel Gay
* Reginald S. Armitage (1892–1955), vice-president of forest company Price Brothers Limited, in Canada.
* Richard Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
** Richard Armitage (agent) (1928–1986), English talent agent
** Richard Armitage (actor) (born 1971), English actor
** Richard Armitage (politician) (born 1945), American politician
* Robert Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
** Robert Armitage (politician) (1866–1944), British Member of Parliament for Leeds Central
** Robert Perceval Armitage (1906–1990), British colonial administrator in Africa
** Robert Armitage (GC) (1905–1982), British bomb disposal expert and George Cross recipient
* Rosemary Armitage (born 1955), Australian politician
* Simon Armitage (born 1963), British poet, novelist and playwright
* Steffon Armitage (born 1985), rugby union footballer
* Steve Armitage (born 1944), English-born Canadian sports reporter
* Thomas Armitage (1824–1890), British physician and founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind
* Tom Armitage (1848–1922), English cricketer
* Vernon Armitage (1842–1911), English cricketer and lawyer
* William Edmond Armitage (1830–1873), American clergyman

## Fictional characters

* Armitage, a character in the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson
* Armitage Hux, general of the First Order in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
* Detective-Judge Armitage, a character in a spin-off from Judge Dredd
* Frank Armitage, character played by Keith David in the film They Live.
* Mrs Armitage, eponymous heroine of a series of books by Quentin Blake
* Arthur Armitage, a character in G. K. Chesterton's short story "The Finger of Stone"
* Henry Armitage, a character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror"
* Jake Armitage, a Shadowrunner in the SNES RPG Shadowrun (SNES)
* Naomi Armitage, an android in the anime series Armitage III
* Willy Armitage, an IMF agent in the TV series Mission: Impossible
* The Armitage family are the central antagonists of the 2017 American horror film Get Out.
* Marivel Armitage, a character in the video game Wild Arms 2