title: Blight (surname)
text: # Blight (surname)
  
  Blight is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include:
  
  ## People with the surname
  
  * David W. Blight (born 1949), American historian
  * Digby Blight (born 1931), former Director of Premier and Cabinet, Western Australia
  * Ellen Blight (1833/1834–1850), English lion-tamer killed by a tiger
  * John Blight (1913–1995), Australian poet of Cornish ancestry
  * John Thomas Blight (1835–1911), Cornish archaeological artist
  * Malcolm Blight (born 1950), former Australian rules footballer
  * Rick Blight (1955–2005), Canadian hockey player
  * Vicki Blight (born 1981), British radio DJ
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Dr. Blight, a villain in the animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers
  * Amity Blight, character in The Owl House
  