Wolton (surname)

Wolton or Woolton is an English toponymic surname, deriving from a place name (Woolton) in Kent or Lancashire. People with the name include:

• Althea Wolton (née Willoughby, 1904–1982), British artist
• Bert Wolton (1929 – 1990), English cricketer
• (b. 1947), French sociologist
• Douglas Wolton (1898 – 1988), British communist activist
• Georgie Wolton, (born 1934), British architect
• (born 1951), French journalist and essayist
• John Woolton (1535?–1594), Bishop of Exeter

See also

• Earl of Woolton, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Wolton (disambiguation)

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