title: Ratcliffe
text: # Ratcliffe
  
  Ratcliffe or Ratcliff may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  ### United Kingdom
  
  * Ratcliff or Ratcliffe, former hamlet, Tower Hamlets, London
  * Ratcliffe-on-Soar, a village in Nottinghamshire
  * Ratcliffe on the Wreake, a village in Leicestershire
     * Ratcliffe College, a school in Leicestershire
  * Ratcliffe Culey, a village in Leicestershire
  
  ### United States
  
  * Ratcliff, Arkansas, a city
  * Ratcliffe Manor, a former plantation house in Easton, Maryland
  
  ## People
  
  * Arthur Ratcliffe (1882–1963), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Leek 1931–1935
  * Derek Ratcliffe (1929–2005), British ecologist
  * Don Ratcliffe (1934–2014), English footballer
  * Francis Ratcliffe (1904–1970), Australian zoologist
  * Henry Butler Ratcliffe (1845–1929), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Bradford Central 1918–1922
  * J. A. Ratcliffe (1902–1987), British ionospheric physicist and academic
  * Jack Ratcliffe (footballer) (1880–1948), English footballer
  * Jim Ratcliffe (born 1952), British billionaire, chemical engineer and financier
  * Jo Ratcliffe, British artist
  * John Ratcliffe (governor) (1549–1609), governor of the original Jamestown, Virginia, US
  * John Ratcliff (cricketer) (1848–1925), English cricketer
  * John Ratcliffe (American politician) (born 1965), US Congressman from Texas, Director of National Intelligence
  * John W. Ratcliff (born 1961), computer game developer
  * Jordan Ratcliffe, English teenager who went missing in 2008
  * Kevin Ratcliffe, (born 1960) Welsh footballer
  * Mary Curtis Ratcliff (born 1942), American artist
  * Mildred Ratcliffe (1899–1988), English painter, commercial artist and calligrapher
  * Paddy Ratcliffe (1919–1986), Irish footballer
  * Peter J. Ratcliffe (born 1954), physician-scientist
  * Richard Ratcliffe, husband of the Iranian-British detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
  * Richard Ratcliffe (died 1485), English nobleman
  * Richard Ratcliffe (1751–1825), American public official considered to be the founder of the city of Fairfax, Virginia, in 1805
  * Sandy Ratcliff (1948–2019), English actress
  * Simon Ratcliffe, of house music duo Basement Jaxx
  
  ## Fiction
  
  * Governor Ratcliffe (Disney), a fictionalized representation in the animated film Pocahontas of John Ratcliffe of the Jamestown colony
  