Arrowsmith is an English-language occupational surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Aaron Arrowsmith (1750–1823), English cartographer
  • Alf Arrowsmith (1942–2005), English footballer
  • Anna Arrowsmith (born 1972), under the pseudonym Anna Span, British pornographic film director and politician
  • Arthur Arrowsmith (1880–1954), English footballer
  • Alex Arrowsmith (born 1982), rock musician
  • Barbara Arrowsmith Young (born 1951), author and learning disability advocate
  • Cheryl Arrowsmith, Canadian structural biologist
  • Clive Arrowsmith, English photographer
  • Edmund Arrowsmith (1585–1628), Roman Catholic martyr and saint
  • James Arrowsmith (1839–1913), British printer and publisher
  • John Arrowsmith (scholar) (1602–1659), English theologian and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
  • John Arrowsmith (cartographer) (1780–1873), geographer and map publisher
  • John C. Arrowsmith (1894–1985), Brigadier general, US Army
  • Mary Noel Arrowsmith (1890–1965), American worker in WWI, won Croix de Guerre
  • Pat Arrowsmith (1930–2023), British author and peace campaigner
  • Percy and Florence Arrowsmith, a British couple erroneously included in the Guinness Book of Records
  • Robert Arrowsmith (born 1952), English cricketer
  • Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014), English artist
  • Tony Arrowsmith (1887–1950), English footballer
  • William Arrowsmith (1924–1992), American classicist, academic and translator

See also

  • Fletcher (surname)