Root (surname)

Root is a surname, and may refer to:

People

• Alan Root (1937–2017), Anglo-Kenyan wildlife filmmaker
• Amanda Root (born 1963), British actress
• Amos Root (1839–1923), American beekeeper
• Antony Root (born 1954), British scriptwriter and drama producer
• Bill Root (ice hockey) (born 1959), Canadian ice-hockey player
• Bill Root (bridge) (1923–2002), American bridge player
• Billy Root (cricketer) (born 1992), English cricketer
• Budd Root (born 1958), American comic book artist
• Charles W. Root (1899-1968), American lawyer and politician
• Charlie Root (1899–1970), American baseball player
• Edmund Root (1881–1961), American naval officer
• Edward Root (1902–1986), Australian rugby league footballer
• Eleazer Root (1802–1887), American educator and Episcopalian priest
• Elias Root (1806–1880), New York businessman and politician
• Elihu Root (1845–1937), American statesman and 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Elisha K. Root (1808–1865), American inventor
• Erastus Root (1773–1846), US congressman from, and lieutenant governor of, New York
• Fred Root (1890–1954), English cricketer
• Frederic Woodman Root (1846-1916), American composer
• George Frederick Root (1820–1895), American songwriter
• Gladys Root (1905–1982), American criminal defense attorney
• Gloria Root (1948–2006), American model
• Grace W. Root (1869-1898), American actress and composer
• Howard Root (1926–2007), American-born British Anglican priest and theologian
• Jack Root (1873-1963), professional name of American light heavyweight boxing champion Janos Ruthuly
• Jacob Root (died 1861), American politician from Maryland
• Jane Root (born 1957), British television executive
• Jesse Root (1736–1822), Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
• Jesse L. Root (1860–1947), Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court
• Jim Root (born 1971), American guitarist
• Jim Root (gridiron football) (1931–2003), American football player and coach
• Joan Root (1936–2006), British (Kenyan-born) ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
• Joe Root (born 1990), English cricketer
• Joe Root (hermit) (1860–1912) American hermit from Erie, Pennsylvania
• Joel Root (1770–1847), American author of a journal of his voyage around the world (1802–1806) on a sealing ship
• John B. Root (born 1958), French pornographic filmmaker
• Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826–1885), American doctor, politician, and diplomat
• John Wellborn Root (1850–1891), American architect
• John Wellborn Root Jr. (1887–1963), American architect
• Jon Root (born 1964), American volleyball player
• Leon Root (1929–2015), American physician
• Martha Root (1872–1939), American teacher of the Bahá'í Faith
• Milo A. Root (1863–1917), justice of the Washington Supreme Court
• Olga von Root (1901–1967), Russian stage actress and singer
• Rebecca Root, English actress
• Richard B. Root (1936–2013), American ecologist, entomologist and evolutionary biologist
• Richard K. Root (1938–2006), American epidemiologist
• Robert Root-Bernstein (born 1953), MacArthur fellow and professor of life sciences at Michigan State University
• Sidney Root (1824–1897), American engineer and businessman
• Stephen Root (born 1951), American actor
• Tina Root (fl. 1980s-2010s), American singer
• Tom Root (born 1973), American Emmy-winning TV writer and producer
• Waverley Root (1903–1982), American journalist
• Wilbur M. Root (1842–1916), American politician
• William Lucas Root (1919–2007), American information theorist
• William Pitt Root (born 1941), American poet

Fictional characters

• Enoch Root, fictional character in The Baroque Cycle novels by Neal Stephenson
• Hugo Root, fictional character in the comic book series Preacher

See also

• Root (disambiguation)
• Rootes (disambiguation)
• Roth (surname)