Wolton or Woolton is an English

toponymic surname A toponymic surname or topographic surname is a surname derived from a place name.

, deriving from a place name (Woolton) in

Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

. 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 Douglas Gordon Wolton (1898 – 1988) was a British communist activist, best known for leading the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Born in Doncaster in England, Wolton moved to South Africa in 1921, and he joined the CPSA in 1925. He ...

(1898 – 1988), British communist activist *

Georgie Wolton Georgie Wolton (née Cheesman; February 1934 – 25 August 2021) was a British architect, an original member of the architecture firm Team 4. Critic Jonathan Meades describes her as the "outstanding woman architect of the generation before Zaha ...

, (born 1934), British architect * (born 1951), French journalist and essayist *

John Woolton John Woolton (or Wolton) (1535? – 13 March 1594) served as Bishop of Exeter in Devon, England, from 1579 to 1594. Origins He was born at Whalley, Lancashire in about 1535, the son of John Woolton of Wigan, by his wife Isabella Nowell, a daught ...

(1535?–1594), Bishop of Exeter

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