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

See also

• John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (1906–1985), British educator and author of the Wolfenden Report (1957)
• Wolfenden (disambiguation)

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