Arkell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * A. J. Arkell (1898–1980), English archaeologist and colonial administrator *

Frank Arkell Francis Neville (Frank) Arkell (13 September 193526 June 1998) was an Australian politician. Arkell was a long-serving Lord Mayor of Wollongong and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Wollongong. In 1 ...

(1935–1998), Australian politician * Henry Arkell (1898–1982), English cricketer * John Arkell (1835–1923), English rower and clergyman *

Keith Arkell Keith Charles Arkell (born 8 January 1961) is an English chess Grandmaster. He won the English Chess Championship in 2008. In 2014 he was European Senior (50+) Champion, and, later in the year, tied for first in the World Senior (50+) Champions ...

(born 1961), English chess grandmaster * Myles Arkell (born 1932), English cricketer *

Reginald Arkell Reginald Arkell (14 October 1881 – 1 May 1959) was a British script writer and comic novelist who wrote many musical plays for the London theatre. The most popular of those was an adaptation of the spoof history book '' 1066 and All That'': ''1 ...

(1882–1959), English writer * Simon Arkell (born 1966), Australian Olympic pole vaulter *

Thomas Arkell Thomas Arkell (10 November 1823 - 2 February 1906) was a Canadian politician, farmer and grain merchant. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1878 as a Member of the Liberal-Conservative Party to represent the riding of Elgin E ...

(1823–1906), English-Canadian politician *

Valerie Arkell-Smith Victor Barker, born Lillias Irma Valerie Barker (27 August 1895 – 18 February 1960) and called Valerie Arkell-Smith after marriage and who also went by the pseudonyms John Hill and Geoffrey Norton, was a transgender man who is notable for ...

(1895–1960), an English transgender man better known as Colonel Sir Victor Barker *

William Joscelyn Arkell William Joscelyn Arkell FGS, FRS (9 June 1904 – 18 April 1958) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century. Childhood Arkell was born in Hi ...

(1904–1958), English geologist and paleontologist

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