Armitage is a surname. It may originate from West Yorkshire, England, during the Anglo-Saxon period.
Persons
Notable people with the name include:
- Alan Armitage (born 1930), English cricketer
- Albert Armitage (1864âÂÂ1943), Scottish explorer
- Alison Armitage (born 1965), British actress
- Allan Armitage (born 1946), American professor of horticulture
- Arnold Armitage (1899âÂÂ1991), British-American artist and illustrator
- Bernard Armitage (1890âÂÂ1976), English physician
- Catharine Armitage (1944âÂÂ2020), British painter
- Cecil Hamilton Armitage (1869âÂÂ1933), British colonial administrator in West Africa
- Charles Armitage (1849âÂÂ1917), English cricketer
- Charles Armitage (1917âÂÂ1998), British Army officer
- General Charles Clement Armitage (1881 - 1973), British Army officer
- David Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- David Armitage (historian) (born 1965), British historian
- David Armitage (footballer) (born 1988), Australian footballer
- David Armitage Bannerman (1886âÂÂ1979), British ornithologist
- Delon Armitage (born 1983), English rugby union footballer
- Edward Armitage (1817âÂÂ1896), English painter
- Edward Liddall Armitage (1887âÂÂ1967), English stained glass artist
- Edward Armitage (cricketer) (1891âÂÂ1957), English cricketer
- Elkanah Armitage (1794âÂÂ1876), English industrialist
- Ethel Armitage (1873âÂÂ1957), British archer
- Flora Anne Armitage (1911âÂÂ1995), British-born American biographer and novelist
- Frank Armitage (1924âÂÂ2016), Australian-born American painter and muralist for Disney
- George Armitage (1942âÂÂ2025), American film director, screenwriter and producer
- George Armitage (footballer) (1898âÂÂ1936), English footballer
- Goody Armitage (fl 1643), American innkeeper
- Guy Armitage (born 1991), English rugby union player
- Harry Armitage (1901âÂÂ1973), English footballer
- Heather Armitage (born 1933), British athlete
- Iain Armitage (born 2008), American child actor
- John Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- John Armitage (politician) (1920âÂÂ2009), Australian politician
- John Armitage (editor) (1910âÂÂ1980), British editor of Encyclopædia Britannica
- Karole Armitage (born 1954), American dancer and choreographer
- Ken Armitage (1920âÂÂ1952), English footballer
- Kenneth Armitage (1916âÂÂ2002), British sculptor
- Lamduan Armitage (1968âÂÂ2004), formerly unidentified Thai decedent in Yorkshire
- Louis Armitage (1921âÂÂ2000), English footballer
- Michael Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Michael Armitage (artist) (born 1984), Kenyan painter
- Michael Armitage (politician) (born 1949), former Australian politician
- Michael Armitage (RAF officer) (1930âÂÂ2022), Royal Air Force commander
- N. Peter Armitage (born 1971), American physicist
- Norman Armitage (1907âÂÂ1972), American Olympic fencer
- Peter Armitage (statistician) (1924âÂÂ2024), English medical statistician
- Peter Armitage (actor) (1939âÂÂ2018), British actor
- Reginald Armitage (1898âÂÂ1954), British composer, better known as Noel Gay
- Reginald S. Armitage (1892âÂÂ1955), vice-president of forest company Price Brothers Limited, in Canada.
- Richard Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Richard Armitage (agent) (1928âÂÂ1986), English talent agent
- Richard Armitage (actor) (born 1971), English actor
- Richard Armitage (politician) (1945âÂÂ2025), American politician
- Robert Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Robert Armitage (politician) (1866âÂÂ1944), British Member of Parliament for Leeds Central
- Robert Perceval Armitage (1906âÂÂ1990), British colonial administrator in Africa
- Robert Armitage (GC) (1905âÂÂ1982), British bomb disposal expert and George Cross recipient
- Rosemary Armitage (born 1955), Australian politician
- Simon Armitage (born 1963), British poet, novelist and playwright
- St John Armitage (1924âÂÂ2004) British military officer and diplomat
- Steffon Armitage (born 1985), rugby union footballer
- Steve Armitage (born 1944), English-born Canadian sports reporter
- Thomas Armitage (1824âÂÂ1890), British physician and founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind
- Tom Armitage (1848âÂÂ1922), English cricketer
- Vernon Armitage (1842âÂÂ1911), English cricketer and lawyer
- William Edmond Armitage (1830âÂÂ1873), American clergyman
Fictional characters
- Armitage, a character in the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson
- Armitage Hux, general of the First Order in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
- Detective-Judge Armitage, a character in a spin-off from Judge Dredd
- Frank Armitage, character played by Keith David in the film They Live.
- Mrs Armitage, eponymous heroine of a series of books by Quentin Blake
- Arthur Armitage, a character in G. K. Chesterton's short story "The Finger of Stone"
- Henry Armitage, a character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror"
- James Armitage, a character in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott"
- Jake Armitage, a Shadowrunner in the SNES RPG Shadowrun (SNES)
- Naomi Armitage, an android in the anime series Armitage III
- Willy Armitage, an IMF agent in the TV series '
- The Armitage family are the central antagonists of the 2017 American horror film Get Out.
- Marivel Armitage, a character in the video game Wild Arms 2
References
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