title: Wolfenden (surname)
text: # Wolfenden (surname)
  
  Wolfenden is a surname of Old English origin meaning 'the valley of Wulfhelm' and derives from the location or township of Wolfenden near Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Lancashire. Other variants include Woolfenden.
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Chantel Louise Wolfenden (born 1986), Australian paralympic swimmer
  * Christopher Wolfenden (born 1977), Canadian volleyball player
  * Hugh Herbert Wolfenden (1892–1968), Canadian actuary and statistician
  * Jacquie Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden) (born 1929), British naturalist
  * James Paine Wolfenden (1889–1949), United States congressman
  * Jeremy Wolfenden (1934–1965), British journalist and spy
  * Matthew Wolfenden (born 1987), British footballer
  * Matthew Wolfenden (born 1980), British actor
  * Richard Vance Wolfenden (born 1935), American biochemist
  * Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926), English physician and oceanographer
  * Guy Anthony Woolfenden (1937–2016), English composer and conductor
  