title: Wadsworth (surname)
text: # Wadsworth (surname)
  
  Wadsworth is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
  
  * Adelaide E. Wadsworth (1844-1928), American painter
  * Alexander S. Wadsworth (1790–1851), U.S. Navy officer; fought in the War of 1812; eponym of three ships
  * Alexander Wadsworth (landscape designer) (1806–1898), helped design Mount Auburn Cemetery
  * Alfred Powell Wadsworth (1890/91-1956), British journalist, editor of The Guardian
  * Andre Wadsworth (born 1974), American football player
  * Benjamin Wadsworth (1670–1737), American clergyman and educator; president of Harvard University
  * Charles Wadsworth (contemporary), American classical pianist and musical promoter
  * Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848), American artist, arts patron, and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
  * Decius Wadsworth (1768–1821) U.S. Army officer and cryptologist; developed a progressive cipher system
  * Derek Wadsworth (1939–2008), British composer and arranger
  * Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949), British artist
  * E. S. Wadsworth (1813–1890), American merchant
  * Eleanor Wadsworth (1917-2020), was the oldest surviving pilot of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) before her death in December 2020.
  * Elijah Wadsworth (1747–1817) American Militia officer during the Revolutionary War and Major General during the War of 1812, early pioneer of Ohio
  * Frank W. Wadsworth (1919–2012), American Shakespearean scholar, author, and sportsman
  * Frederick Wadsworth (1786–1869), American businessman and politician
  * George Wadsworth (1893–1958), American diplomat; specialized in the Middle East
  * George Wadsworth (1902–1979), British politician; MP for the East Riding of Yorkshire
  * James Wadsworth (1730–1816), American general in the Revolution; delegate to the Continental Congress
  * James Wadsworth (of Geneseo) (1768–1844) American pioneer, land agent, philanthropist
  * James S. Wadsworth (1807–1864), American politician, philanthropist, and general in the Civil War
  * James Wadsworth (1819–1891) American businessman and Mayor of Buffalo, New York
  * James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846–1926), American politician; U.S. representative from New York
  * James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. (1877–1952), American politician; U.S. representative and U.S. Senator from New York
  * James Jeremiah Wadsworth (1905–1984), U.S. diplomat; ambassador to the UN
  * Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743–1804), American sea captain; delegate to the Continental Congress; U.S. representative from Connecticut
  * Harrison Wadsworth, Jr. (1924-2010) American engineering professor of statistical methods, author and pioneer in quality control science
  * Ken Wadsworth (1946–1976), New Zealand cricketer
  * Mabel Sine Wadsworth (1910-2006), American birth control activist and women's health educator
  * Marc Wadsworth, British anti-racist campaigner
  * Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757), American poet and writer.
  * Michael Wadsworth (contemporary), British sociologist and socio-medical researcher
  * Mick Wadsworth (born 1950), British football coach
  * Peleg Wadsworth (1748–1829), U.S. Army officer in the American Revolution; grandfather of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  * Philip Wadsworth (1832–1901), American merchant and politician
  * Priscilla Wadsworth, American artist
  * Walter Wadsworth (1890–1951), British football player
  * William Wadsworth (1594–1675), British Puritan, American colonial pioneer, co-founder of Hartford, Connecticut, ancestor of the poet Ezra Pound
  * William Wadsworth (1765–1833), Brigadier General of New York Militia in the War of 1812
  