Walcott (surname)
# Walcott (surname)

Walcott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Arthur Walcott (1857–1934), a British actor of the silent era
* Bess Bolden Walcott (1886–1988), African American educator, librarian, curator and activist
* Charles Walcott (MP) (1733–1799), British politician
* Charles Doolittle Walcott, American invertebrate paleontologist, discovered the Burgess Shale
* Charles F. Walcott, American Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War.
* Clyde Walcott (1926–2006), a West Indian cricketer
* Collin Walcott (1945–1984), a North American musician.
* Dennis Walcott, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
* Derek Walcott (1930–2017), Nobel laureate, poet, writer and artist of the post-colonial school of English language writing
* Frederic C. Walcott (1869–1949), a United States Senator from Connecticut
* George Walcott (1914–1964), American film actor
* Gregory Walcott (1928–2015), American actor and producer
* Harry Mills Walcott (1870–1944), a leading American painter and teacher of early 20th century
* Jacob Walcott, an English footballer who plays for North Leigh
* Jennifer Walcott, Playboy playmate
* Jersey Joe Walcott (1914–1994), born Arnold Raymond Cream, a world heavyweight boxing champion - often compared to former world welterweight champion Barbados Joe Walcott, thus nicknamed Jersey Joe Walcott
* Joe Walcott (1873–1935), boxer from British Guiana, a world welterweight champion
* Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower
* Leslie Walcott (1894–1984), a West Indian cricketer who played for Barbados
* Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), an American artist and naturalist
* Richard Irving Walcott (1933– ), New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics
* Robert John Walcott (1839–1875), Attorney-General of Western Australia (1870-1872), Chief Justice of British Honduras (1872–1875)
* Roderick Walcott (1930–2000), a St Lucian playwright, screenwriter, painter and theatre director
* Sir Stephen Walcott (1807–1887), Commissioner of the U.K. Government Emigration Board
* Theo Walcott, an English footballer who plays for Southampton
* Yasmine Lyndell Walcott, Miss St. Lucia in 1994 and Consul General of St. Lucia in Martinique
* William Walcot (1874–1943), a British architect graphic artist and etcher, notable as a practitioner of refined Art Nouveau
