Fielding (surname)

Fielding or Feilding is an English surname.

Notable people with the surname include:

Business, commerce, science, technology

• Amanda Feilding (1943–2025), British artist, scientist and drug policy reformer
• Fred F. Fielding (born 1939), American lawyer
• Henry Barron Fielding (1805–1851), English botanist
• Roy Fielding (born 1965), American computer scientist, one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification
• Thomas Fielding (born abt 1758), English engraver
• Sir Charles William Fielding (1863–1941), British businessman, landowner, farmer, writer, and civil servant

Military

• Charles Fielding or Feilding (1738–1783), British naval officer
• Xan Fielding (1918–1991), British soldier, author, translator, journalist and traveller

Public service and politics

• Sir John Fielding (1721–1780), English magistrate and social reformer
• Sir Leslie Fielding (1932–2021), British former ambassador
• Steve Fielding (born 1960), Australian senator

Sports

• Frank Fielding (born 1988), English football goalkeeper
• Fred Fielding (1889–1918), Australian rules footballer
• Keith Fielding (born 1949), English rugby footballer
• Ross Fielding (1880–1947), English footballer
• William Fielding (1875–1946), New Zealand architect and lawn bowler

The arts

• Copley Fielding (1787–1855), English painter
• Daphne Fielding (1904–1997), British author
• Emma Fielding (born 1970), English actress
• Fenella Fielding (1927–2018), English actress
• Harold Fielding (1916–2003), English theatre producer
• Helen Fielding (born 1958), English novelist and screenwriter, author of Bridget Jones's Diary
• Henry Fielding (1707–1754), English novelist and dramatist, author of Tom Jones
• Janet Fielding (born 1953), Australian actress
• Joy Fielding (born 1945), Canadian novelist and actress
• Mantle Fielding (1865–1941), American architect, art and engraver historian, and tennis player
• Marjorie Fielding (1892–1956), British stage and film actress
• Michael Fielding (born 1982), English comedian and actor
• Noel Fielding (born 1973), English artist, comedian and actor
• Robert Fielding (born 1959), Australian artist, father of Zaachariaha
• Sarah Fielding (1710–1768), English novelist
• Susannah Fielding (born 1985), English actress
• Jerry Fielding (1922–1980), American composer, conductor, and musical director
• William John Fielding (1886–1973), American writer
• Yvette Fielding (born 1968), English broadcaster, producer and actress
• Zaachariaha Fielding, musician (with Electric Fields and artist, son of Robert

Others

• Joseph Fielding (1797–1863), English leader of the Latter-day Saint movement
• William Feilding (disambiguation)

Earls of Denbigh

• William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh
• Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh (1608–1675)
• George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond (1614–1665)
• William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh and 2nd Earl of Desmond (1640–1685)
• Basil Feilding, 4th Earl of Denbigh and 3rd Earl of Desmond (1668–1717)
• William Feilding, 5th Earl of Denbigh and 4th Earl of Desmond (1697–1755)
• Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh and 5th Earl of Desmond (1719–1800)
• William Robert Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1760–1799)
• William Basil Percy Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh and 6th Earl of Desmond (1796–1865)
• Rollo William Basil Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh and 7th Earl of Desmond (1823–1892)
• Rollo Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh and 8th Earl of Desmond (1859–1939)
• Rollo Edmund Aloysius Feilding, Viscount Feilding (1885–1937)
• William Rollo Stephen Feilding, 10th Earl of Denbigh and 9th Earl of Desmond (1912–1966)
• Rollo William Michael Feilding, 11th Earl of Denbigh and 10th Earl of Desmond (1943–1995)
• Alexander Stephen Rudolph Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh and 11th Earl of Desmond (b. 1970)

Fictional characters

• Caroline Fairchild (née Fielding), leading character in Executive Stress
• Matt Fielding, fictional character in American television series Melrose Place

See also

• R. Fielding Dodd (c.1890–1958), Scottish architect
• Earl of Denbigh

References