# Wentworth (surname)

Wentworth is a surname which may refer to:

## People

* Ali Wentworth (born 1965), American actress
* Anne Wentworth (disambiguation)
* Anton H. Wentworth (1897–2001), American politician
* Austin Wentworth (born 1990), American football player
* Benning Wentworth (1696–1770), American-born merchant, governor of New Hampshire under kings George II and George III
* Buddy Wentworth (1937–2014), Namibian politician
* Catherine D. Wentworth (1865–1948), American painter
* Cecile de Wentworth (1853–1933), American portrait painter
* D'Arcy Wentworth (1762–1827), surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I
* D'Arcy Wentworth, Jr. (1793–1861), son of D'Arcy Wentworth, army officer and New South Wales politician
* Erastus Wentworth (1813–1886), American educator, Methodist Episcopal minister and missionary to China
* Finn Wentworth (born 1958), American entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor
* Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1732–1799), British peer
* Harold Wentworth (lexicographer) (1904-1965), American lexicographer
* Henry Wentworth (c. 1448–between 1499 and 1501), de jure Lord Despenser and grandfather of Jane Seymour
* George Wentworth (of Woolley) (1599–1660), English MP for Pontefract 1640–1642
* George Wentworth (of Wentworth Woodhouse) (1609–?), English MP for Pontefract 1640–1644
* George A. Wentworth (1835–1906), American teacher and author of textbooks
* Henrietta Wentworth, 6th Baroness Wentworth (1660–1686), mistress of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth
* Jeff Wentworth (born 1940), member of the Texas State Senate
* John Wentworth (disambiguation)
* Joseph Wentworth (1877–1944), American college football player, coach and lawyer
* K. D. Wentworth (1951–2012), American science fiction writer
* Margery Wentworth (c. 1478–1550), mother of Jane Seymour
* Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942), American playwright, poet, and suffragist
* Martha Wentworth (1889–1974), American actress
* Moses J. Wentworth (1848–1922), American politician
* Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (1941–2020), Australian political journalist
* Paul Wentworth (1533–1593), English Member of Parliament
* Paul Wentworth (spy) (c. 1736–1793), British spy, lawyer and plantation owner in Surinam
* Peter Wentworth (1529–1596), English Puritan Member of Parliament, brother of Paul
* Peter Wentworth (Parliamentarian) (1592–1675), English Parliamentarian, grandson of the above Peter
* Philip Wentworth (1424–1464), English knight and Usher of the King's Chamber, great-grandfather of Queen Jane Seymour
* Richard Wentworth (disambiguation)
* Robin Wentworth (1915–1997), British television actor
* Sarah Wentworth (1805–1880), Australian litigant who brought the first breach of promise suit in Australia
* Scott Wentworth (born 1955), American actor and director
* Stephen G. Wentworth (1811–1897), founder of Wentworth Military Academy
* Thomas Wentworth (disambiguation)
* Tim Wentworth, (born 1959/1960), American businessman, CEO of pharmacy operator Walgreens Boots Alliance
* Vera Wentworth (1890–1957), British suffragist
* William Wentworth (disambiguation)

## Fictional characters

* protagonist of A.J. Wentworth, B.A., a 1982 British sitcom
* Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion), a main character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion
* Richard Wentworth, a pulp magazine character as The Spider
* Lovey (Wentworth) Howell, wife of Thurston Howell III on the American sitcom Gilligan's Island