Appleton (surname)
# Appleton (surname)

Appleton is an Anglo-Saxon locational surname.

It is borne by:

## People

* Alistair Appleton (born 1970), British television presenter
* Charles Appleton (academic) (1841–1879), Oxford don and scholarly entrepreneur
* Charles Appleton (cricketer) (1844–1925), English amateur cricketer
* Charles William Appleton (1874–1945), vice president of the General Electric Company, judge and Assistant District Attorney in New York City
* Colin Appleton (1936–2021), English football player and manager
* Daniel Appleton (1785–1849), American publisher, founder of D. Appleton & Company
* Edward Victor Appleton (1892–1965), English Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on the ionosphere
* Edwin Nelson Appleton (1877–1937), United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient
* Elizabeth Lachlan (1790–1849), née Appleton, British writer and education advocate
* Francis R. Appleton (1854–1929), lawyer and member of the 400 during the Gilded Age
* Frederick Charles Appleton (1835–1914), Australian actor
* George Swett Appleton (1821–1878), American publisher
* Henry Appleton (captain) (fl. 1650–1654), English captain in the navy and commodore
* James Appleton (1786–1862), American abolitionist
* Jean Appleton (1911–2003), Australian painter, art teacher and printmaker
* John Appleton (disambiguation)
* Jon Appleton (1939–2022), American composer, author and professor of music
* Michael Appleton (born 1975), English football manager and former player
* Mike Appleton (1936–2020), British television producer
* Natalie Appleton (born 1973), Canadian-born British singer
* Nathan Appleton (1779–1861), American merchant, entrepreneur and politician
* Nicole Appleton (born 1974), Canadian-born British singer, sister of Natalie Appleton
* Ray Appleton (1941–2015), American jazz drummer
* Ruel Ross Appleton (1853–1928), campaign manager for Mayor Gaynor of New York City
* Samuel Appleton (merchant) (1766–1853), American merchant and philanthropist
* Scott Appleton (1942–1992), American football player
* Stevie Appleton, British singer
* Thomas Gold Appleton (1812–1884), American author and artist
* William Appleton (politician) (1786–1862), congressman from Massachusetts
* Will Appleton (1889–1958), mayor of Wellington, New Zealand
* William Sumner Appleton (1874–1947), founder Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
* William M. Appleton (1920–2001), Pennsylvania politician
* William Henry Appleton (1814–1899), American publisher
* William Appleton (entrepreneur) (born 1961), American entrepreneur and technologist
* William H. Appleton (1843–1912), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
* William Thomas Appleton (1859–1930), Australian businessman, shipping agent and public servant

## Fictional characters

* the title character of Elizabeth Appleton, a 1963 novel by John O'Hara
* Larry Appleton, from the TV series Perfect Strangers
