# Bigelow (surname)

Bigelow is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Abijah Bigelow (1775–1860), United States Representative from Massachusetts
* Albert Bigelow (1906–1993), former United States Navy officer turned peace activist and Quaker
* Bob Bigelow (1953–2020), retired National Basketball Association player
* Charles A. Bigelow (1862–1912), American actor
* Charles Bigelow (type designer) (born 1945), American type historian, professor, and designer
* Daniel Bigelow (1824–1905), American lawyer and politician
* Doug Bigelow (1928–1996), Australian rules footballer with Essendon Football Club
* Edward Manning Bigelow (1850–1916), Pittsburgh City Engineer, Director of Public Works and "father of Pittsburgh's parks"
* Ella A. Bigelow (1849–1917), American author and clubwoman
* Elliot Bigelow (1897–1933), Major League Baseball player
* Elmer Charles Bigelow (1920–1945), posthumous recipient of the United States Medal of Honor
* Erastus Brigham Bigelow (1814–1879), American inventor of weaving machines
* Frank Bigelow (born 1954), American politician. Served in the California State Assembly from 2012 to 2022
* Frank Hagar Bigelow (1851–1924), United States astronomer and meteorologist
* Frederick Ellsworth Bigelow (1873–1929), American bandmaster and composer
* George Tyler Bigelow (1810–1878), chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
* Harry Bigelow (1874–1950), American lawyer and big-game hunter
* Henry Bryant Bigelow (1879–1967), American oceanographer and marine biologist
* Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818–1890), American surgeon and Harvard University professor
* Herbert S. Bigelow (1870–1951), United States Representative from Ohio
* Hobart B. Bigelow (1834–1891), American politician and 50th Governor of Connecticut
* Horace Bigelow (1898–1980), American chess master and organizer
* Howard E. Bigelow (1923–1987), American mycologist
* Iva Bigelow (later Iva Bigelow Weaver; 1875–1932), American singer
* Jacob Bigelow (1787–1879), American physician, botanist, architect and professor
* John Bigelow (1817–1911), American lawyer
* John Bigelow Jr. (1854–1936), United States Army officer and son of John Bigelow
* John Milton Bigelow (1804–1878), American physician and botanist
* John P. Bigelow (1797–1872), mayor of Boston, Secretary of State of Massachusetts and member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
* Julian Bigelow (1913–2003), American pioneering computer engineer
* Kathryn Bigelow (born 1951), American film director
* Lettie S. Bigelow (1848/49 – 1906), American author
* Lewis Bigelow (1785–1838), United States Representative from Massachusetts
* Lisa Jenn Bigelow, American writer of children's books and young adult novels
* Lucius A. Bigelow (1892–1973), American chemistry professor
* Poultney Bigelow (1855–1954), American journalist and author
* Rensselaer R. Bigelow (1848–1907), justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada
* Robert Bigelow (born 1945), hotel magnate
* Rolla Bigelow (1878–1952), American banker
* Scott Bam Bam Bigelow (1961–2007), American professional wrestler
* Stephen Bigelow, Australian mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara
* Timothy Bigelow (soldier) (1739–1790), Continental Army colonel in the American Revolutionary War
* Timothy Bigelow (lawyer) (1767–1821), Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
* Tom Bigelow (born 1939), former racing driver
* Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913–2005), Canadian surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker
* William Sturgis Bigelow (1850–1926), American physician and collector of Japanese art