Fawcett (surname)

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

• A. Chase Fawcett (1863–1934), Canadian politician.
• Benjamin Fawcett (1808–1893), English woodblock colour printer
• Brian Fawcett (born 1944), Canadian poet and novelist
• Cesar Fawcett, Colombian footballer
• Charles Fawcett (historian), British historian
• Charles Bungay Fawcett (1883-1952), British geographer
• Charles Fernley Fawcett (1915–2008), U.S. soldier, actor, and co-founder of the International Medical Corps
• Charlotte Fawcett (born 1942), British artist, mother of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson
• David Fawcett (born 1963), Australian politician
• Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866-1960), English mountaineer, philosopher and novelist
• Eric Fawcett (1927–2000), British-Canadian physicist
• F. Conger Fawcett (1934-2012), U.S. criminal defense lawyer
• Farrah Fawcett (1947–2009), U.S. actress
• Henry Fawcett (1833–1884), British economist and politician
• James Farish Malcolm Fawcett (c. 1856 – after 1918), English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera
• Joan Fawcett (1937–2015), Canadian politician
• John Fawcett (actor) (1768–1837), English actor and playwright
• John Fawcett (of Bolton) (1789–1867), English composer
• Joseph Fawcett (1758-1804), English Presbyterian minister and poet
• Joy Fawcett (born 1968), American soccer player
• Millicent Fawcett (1847–1929), British feminist
• Norman Fawcett (1910–1997), Canadian politician
• Percy Fawcett (1867–c. 1925), British archaeologist and explorer
• Philippa Fawcett (1868–1948), British mathematician and educator
• Quinn Fawcett, pen name of a pair of authors, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett
• Ron Fawcett (born 1955), English rock climber
• Ruth Fawcett (born 1961), Canadian physicist
• Taylor Fawcett (born 1993), British actor
• Theodore Fawcett (1832–1898), Australian settler and politician
• Wilford Fawcett (1885–1940), American publisher
• William Fawcett (disambiguation), several persons with the name