title: Slingsby (surname)
text: # Slingsby (surname)
  
  Slingsby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Francis Slingsby (1569–1651), Anglo-Irish soldier of the late sixteenth century
  * Fred Slingsby, founder of Slingsby Sailplanes Ltd
  * Guildford Slingsby (1610–1643), Irish politician
  * Guylford Slingsby (1565–1631), administrator who went on to be Comptroller of the Navy
  * Henry Slingsby (disambiguation), several people
  * John Francis Waller (1810–1894), writer publishing magazine articles under the pseudonym of Jonathan Freke Slingsby
  * John Slingsby (1788–1826), English amateur cricketer
  * Mary Slingsby (fl. 1670–1685), English actress
  * Slingsby Bethel (1617–1697), Member of Parliament with republican sympathies, during the period of the English Civil War
  * Tom Slingsby (born 1984), Australian sailor
  * William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929), English mountain climber and alpine explorer
  