# Turton

Turton may refer to:

## People

* Turton baronets

### Surname

* Andrew Turton (1938–2021), British anthropologist
* Ashley Turton (1973–2011), American lobbyist and political staffer
* Chad Turton (born 1974), birth name of Chad Kroeger
* Cyril Turton (1921–2000), English football centre back
* Sir Edmund Turton, 1st Baronet of Upsall, York (1857–1929), British Conservative Party politician for Thirsk and Malton 1915–1929
* Edmund Turton (athlete) (born 1932), Olympic athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
* Enid Bakewell (née Turton; born 1940), played for the English women's cricket team
* Geoff Turton (born 1944), British singer
* Gibson Turton (1841–1891), New Zealand barrister and cricket player
* Gerald Turton, owner of Upsall Castle
* Harriet Bridgeman, Viscountess Bridgeman (née Victoria Harriet Lucy Turton; born 1942), founder of the Bridgeman Art Library
* Henry Hanson Turton (1818–1887), Member of Parliament in Taranaki, New Zealand
* Henry Turton [de] (1832–1881), chess problem composer; see Turton doubling
* John Turton (1735–1806), English physician who treated King George III of Great Britain during the king's bouts of madness
* Kett Turton (Birkett Kealy Turton; born 1982), Canadian television and film actor
* Ollie Turton (born 1992), English football defender
* Major Richard Turton, British colonial military officer who re-established the convict settlement at Norfolk Island
* Robin Turton, Baron Tranmire (1903–1994), Life Peer and British Conservative Party politician for Thirsk and Malton
* Searle Turton (born 1979), Canadian politician
* Sue Turton (born c. 1966), British television journalist
* Stuart Turton, author of the 2018 novel The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
* Sir Thomas Turton, 1st Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey (1764–1844), MP for Southwark
* Thomas Turton DD (1780–1864), English academic and divine, the Bishop of Ely
* Sir Thomas Edward Michell Turton, 2nd Baronet of Starborough Castle, Surrey (1790–1854); see Turton baronets
* William Turton (1762–1835), British naturalist

## Places
### Australia

* Point Turton, South Australia

### United Kingdom

* Turton, Lancashire, a historical area, township and former civil parish now partly in Greater Manchester
** Turton Urban District, a former urban district in Lancashire
** North Turton, a civil parish of the Unitary Authority of Blackburn with Darwen in Lancashire
** South Turton, an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester
* Turton and Edgworth railway station, formerly on what is now the Northern Rail 'Ribble Valley Line
* Turton and Entwistle Reservoir, a water reservoir in the town of Edgworth, Lancashire
* Turton Tower, Chapeltown, Lancashire, a 15th-century manor house

### United States

* Turton, South Dakota

## Organisations

* Turton F.C., a football club based in Edgworth, Lancashire, England
* Turton High School (1915–1956), a secondary school in Turton, South Dakota, U.S.
* Turton School, a mixed comprehensive secondary school and sixth form in Bromley Cross, in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

## Other uses

* Turton doubling, a manoeuvre found in chess problems
* Turton River, Victoria, Australia
* Sir Basil and Lady Turton, characters in the British television series Tales of the Unexpected