Wolfenden (surname)
# Wolfenden (surname)

Wolfenden is a surname of Old English origin meaning 'the valley of Wulfhelm' and derives from the location or township of Wolfenden near Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Lancashire. Other variants include Woolfenden.

## Surname

* Chantel Louise Wolfenden (born 1986), Australian paralympic swimmer
* Christopher Wolfenden (born 1977), Canadian volleyball player
* Hugh Herbert Wolfenden (1892–1968), Canadian actuary and statistician
* Jacquie Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden) (born 1929), British naturalist
* James Paine Wolfenden (1889–1949), United States congressman
* Jeremy Wolfenden (1934–1965), British journalist and spy
* Matthew Wolfenden (born 1987), British footballer
* Matthew Wolfenden (born 1980), British actor
* Richard Vance Wolfenden (born 1935), American biochemist
* Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926), English physician and oceanographer
* Guy Anthony Woolfenden (1937–2016), English composer and conductor
