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Foote is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

A

  • Adam Foote (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Albert E. Foote (1846–1895) American mineralogist
  • Alexander Foote (1905–1956) British-born Soviet agent
  • Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), American naval officer, a Union admiral
  • Arthur Foote (1853–1937), American composer
  • Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933), American engineer

B

  • Barry Foote (born 1952), American baseball player

C

  • Callan Foote (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Christopher Spencer Foote (1935–2005), American chemist

D

  • Diane Foote (born 1954), New Zealand Olympic gymnast

E

  • Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) American physicist
  • Elisha Foote (1809–1883), American judge, inventor, and mathematician
  • Elizabeth Erny Foote (born 1953), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2010
  • Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), American scientist, inventor and feminist

F

  • Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850–1911), British army officer and musician

G

  • George William Foote (1850–1915), English radical journalist and secularist
  • Georgia May Foote (born 1991), English actress and model

H

  • Henry Bowreman Foote (1904–1993), British recipient of the Victoria Cross, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps
  • Henry S. Foote (1804–1880), US Senator and Governor of Mississippi (1852–1854)
  • Hezekiah William Foote (1813–1899), American Confederate veteran, attorney, planter and state politician from Mississippi
  • Huger Lee Foote (1854–1915), American planter and state senator from Mississippi
  • Horton Foote (1916–2009), American author and playwright

J

  • James Foote (1829–1895), Australian politician
  • Jeff Foote (born 1987), American professional basketball player
  • John Clarke Foote (1822–1895), Australian politician
  • John J. Foote (1816–1905), New York politician
  • Reverend John Weir Foote (1904–1988), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
  • Jonathan L. Foote (1935–2026), American architect
  • Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician and 14th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

K

  • Kenneth Foote (born 1948), American engineer

L

  • Larry Foote (born 1980), American football player
  • L.B. Foote (1873–1957) Canadian photographer
  • Lucinda Foote (1770/71–?), American teen who attempted to enroll at Yale College, but was rejected for her gender

M

  • Mary Foote (1872–1968), American painter; Carl Jung associate
  • Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), American writer and illustrator

N

  • Nathaniel Foote (1592–1644), founder of Wethersfield, Connecticut

P

  • Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), American naval officer

R

  • Richard H. Foote (1918–2002), American entomologist
  • Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912), British geologist who is considered the "Father of Indian Prehistory"

S

  • Samuel Foote (1720–1777), Cornish dramatist and actor
  • Selina Foote, (born 1985), New Zealand visual artist
  • Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American historian

T

  • Thomas Foote (1598–1687), English grocer and baronet
  • Thomas M. Foote (1808–1858), American diplomat

W

  • William Henry Foote (1794–1869), American Presbyterian minister in the Antebellum South