Yaxley is an English toponymic surname, which along with dialectal variants, Yexley, Yoakley, Yockley, and Yokley, may derive from any of the English places that bore this name, including

Yaxley, Cambridgeshire Yaxley is a village and civil parish in the Huntingdonshire district in Cambridgeshire, England. Yaxley lies approximately south of Peterborough, just off the A15 road. The village is located near the Hampton township, and is approximately thr ...

(formerly Huntingdonshire) and

Yaxley, Suffolk Yaxley is a small village just west of Eye in Suffolk, England. The name means 'cuckoo-clearing'. Church of St. Mary Pevsner describes the north porch of the 12th-century church as 'one of the most swagger in Suffolk'. Inside the church are th ...

. "Yacksley" is a variant form.Reaney, P. H. (1997) ''A Dictionary of English Sernames''; revised 3rd ed. with corrections & additions by R. M. Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press; p. 507 Notable people with the surname include: *

Francis Yaxley Francis Yaxley (died 1565) was an English politician and conspirator. Life Yaxley was the eldest son of Richard Yaxley of Mellis, Suffolk, by his wife Anne, daughter of Roger Austin of Earlsham, Suffolk. The family were settled at Yaxley Hal ...

(died 1565), English politician and conspirator * Greta Yaxley (born 2000), television cook *

John Yaxley John Yaxley (died c. 1625) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England, House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Cambridge (UK Parliament constituency), Cambridge between 1597 and 1611. Career Yaxley prob ...

(died c. 1625), English lawyer and MP *

John Francis Yaxley John Francis Yaxley (born 13 November 1936 in Birmingham, England) is a former civil servant in the UK Colonial Office. After beginning his career in the Pacific Islands, Yaxley occupied a number of senior roles with the administration of Britis ...

(born 1936), civil servant in the UK Colonial Office * Peter Yaxley (1928–2015), New Zealand rugby league player and referee *

Richard Yaxley Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

(1560–1589), Catholic martyr * Robert Yaxley (1912–1943), Royal Air Force pilot and commander during the Second World War * Sandra Yaxley (born 1968), Australian swimmer with cerebral palsy, won gold in 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics * Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (born 1982), better known as

Tommy Robinson (activist) Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right, Islamophobic activist, and convicted criminal on multiple counts of violence and fraud as well as other crimes. He is the co-fou ...

, British far-right political activist

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