Wadsworth (surname)

Wadsworth is a surname. Notable persons with that surname include:

• Adelaide E. Wadsworth (1844–1928), American painter
• Alexander S. Wadsworth (1790–1851), United States Navy officer
• Alexander Wadsworth (landscape designer) (1806–1898), American landscape architect and surveyor
• Andre Wadsworth (born 1974), American football player
• A. P. Wadsworth (1890/91–1956), British journalist, editor of The Guardian
• Benjamin Wadsworth (actor) (born 1999), American actor
• Benjamin Wadsworth (clergyman) (1670–1737), American Congregational clergyman and educator
• Charles Wadsworth (1929–2025), American classical pianist and musical promoter
• Daniel Wadsworth (1771–1848), American artist, arts patron, and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
• Decius Wadsworth (1768–1821) United States Army officer and cipher system inventor
• Derek Wadsworth (1939–2008), British composer and arranger
• Edward Wadsworth (1889–1949), British artist
• Eleanor Wadsworth (1917–2020), British Air Transport Auxiliary pilot during the Second World War
• Elijah Wadsworth (1747–1817) American militia officer during the Revolutionary War and major general during the War of 1812, early pioneer of Ohio
• E. S. Wadsworth (1813–1890), American merchant
• Frank W. Wadsworth (1919–2012), American Shakespearean scholar, author, and sportsman
• Frederick Wadsworth (1786–1869), American businessman and politician
• George Wadsworth II (1893–1958), American diplomat
• George Wadsworth (politician) (1902–1979), British politician
• James Wadsworth (disambiguation)
• Jeremiah Wadsworth (1743–1804), American sea captain, Confederate and American politician
• Harrison Wadsworth Jr. (1924–2010) American engineering professors, author and pioneer in quality control science
• Ken Wadsworth (1946–1976), New Zealand cricketer
• Mabel Sine Wadsworth (1910–2006), American birth control activist and women's health educator
• Marc Wadsworth, British anti-racist campaigner
• Martha Wadsworth (1862–1943), American entomologist
• Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710–c. 1757), née Brewster, American poet and writer
• Michael Wadsworth (sociologist), British sociologist and socio-medical researcher, director of the National Survey of Health & Development (1982–2006)
• Mick Wadsworth (born 1950), British football coach
• Nathan Wadsworth, American politician elected in 2024
• Peleg Wadsworth (1748–1829), American officer in the Revolutionary War
• Philip Wadsworth (1832–1901), American merchant and politician
• Priscilla Wadsworth (born 1990), American artist
• Walter Wadsworth (1890–1951), British footballer
• William Wadsworth (disambiguation)