# Foote

Foote is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

## A

* Adam Foote (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
* Albert E. Foote (1846–1895) American mineralogist
* Alexander Foote (1905-1956) British-born Soviet agent
* Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), American naval officer, a Union admiral
* Arthur Foote (1853–1937), American composer
* Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933), American engineer

## B

* Barry Foote (born 1952), American baseball player

## C

* Callan Foote (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
* Christopher Spencer Foote (1935–2005), American chemist

## D

* Diane Foote (born 1954), New Zealand Olympic gymnast

## E

* Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) American physicist
* Elisha Foote (1809–1883), American judge, inventor, and mathematician
* Elizabeth Erny Foote (born 1953), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2010
* Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), American scientist, inventor and feminist

## F

* Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850–1911), British army officer and musician

## G

* George William Foote (1850–1915), English radical journalist and secularist
* Georgia May Foote (born 1991), English actress and model

## H

* Henry Bowreman Foote (1904–1993), British recipient of the Victoria Cross, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps
* Henry S. Foote (1804–1880), US Senator and Governor of Mississippi (1852–1854)
* Hezekiah William Foote (1813–1899), American Confederate veteran, attorney, planter and state politician from Mississippi
* Huger Lee Foote (1854–1915), American planter and state senator from Mississippi
* Horton Foote (1916–2009), American author and playwright

## J

* James Foote (1829 - 1895), Australian politician
* Jeff Foote (born 1987), American professional basketball player
* John Clarke Foote (1822–1895), Australian politician
* John J. Foote (1816–1905), New York politician
* Reverend John Weir Foote (1904–1988), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
* Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician and 14th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

## K

* Kenneth Foote (born 1948), American engineer

## L

* Larry Foote (born 1980), American football player
* L.B. Foote (1873–1957) Canadian photographer
* Lucinda Foote (1770/71–?), American teen who attempted to enroll at Yale College, but was rejected for her gender

## M

* Mary Foote (1872–1968), American painter; Carl Jung associate
* Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), American writer and illustrator

## N

* Nathaniel Foote (1592–1644), founder of Wethersfield, Connecticut

## P

* Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), American naval officer

## R

* Richard H. Foote (1918–2002), American entomologist
* Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912), British geologist who is considered the "Father of Indian Prehistory"

## S

* Samuel Foote (1720–1777), Cornish dramatist and actor
* Selina Foote, (born 1985), New Zealand visual artist
* Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American historian

## T

* Thomas Foote (1598–1687), English grocer and baronet
* Thomas M. Foote (1808–1858), American diplomat

## W

* William Henry Foote (1794–1869), American Presbyterian minister in the Antebellum South