Root (surname)

Root is a surname, and may refer to:

People
  • Alan Root (1937–2017), Anglo-Kenyan wildlife filmmaker
  • Amanda Root (born 1963), British actress
  • Amos Root (1839–1923), American beekeeper
  • Antony Root (born 1954), British scriptwriter and drama producer
  • Bill Root (born 1959), Canadian ice-hockey player
  • Bill Root (bridge) (1923–2002), American bridge player
  • Billy Root (born 1992), English cricketer
  • Budd Root (born 1958), American comic book artist
  • Charlie Root (1899–1970), American baseball player
  • Edmund Root (1881–1961), American naval officer
  • Edward Root (1902–1986), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Eleazer Root (1802–1887), American educator and Episcopalian priest
  • Elias Root (1806–1880), New York businessman and politician
  • Elihu Root (1845–1937), American statesman and 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Elisha K. Root (1808–1865), American inventor
  • Erastus Root (1773–1846), US congressman from, and lieutenant governor of, New York
  • Fred Root (1890–1954), English cricketer
  • George Frederick Root (1820–1895), American songwriter
  • Gladys Root (1905–1982), American criminal defense attorney
  • Gloria Root (1948–2006), American model
  • Howard Root (1926–2007), American-born British Anglican priest and theologian
  • Jack Root (1873-1963), professional name of American light heavyweight boxing champion Janos Ruthuly
  • Jane Root (born 1957), British television executive
  • Jesse Root (1736–1822), American jurist
  • Jim Root (born 1971), American guitarist
  • Jim Root (gridiron football) (1931–2003), American football player and coach
  • Joan Root (1936–2006), British (Kenyan-born) ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
  • Joe Root (born 1990), English cricketer
  • Joe Root (Pennsylvania) (1860–1912) American hermit from Erie, Pennsylvania
  • Joel Root (1770–1847), American author of a journal of his voyage around the world (1802–1806) on a sealing ship
  • John B. Root (born 1958), French pornographic filmmaker
  • Joseph Pomeroy Root (1826–1885), American doctor, politician, and diplomat
  • John Wellborn Root (1850–1891), American architect
  • John Wellborn Root, Jr. (1887–1963), American architect
  • Jon Root (born 1964), American volleyball player
  • Leon Root (1929–2015), American physician
  • Martha Root (1872–1939), American teacher of the Bahá'í Faith
  • Richard B. Root (1936–2013), American ecologist, entomologist and evolutionary biologist
  • Richard K. Root (1938–2006), American epidemiologist
  • Robert Root-Bernstein (born 1953), MacArthur fellow and professor of life sciences at Michigan State University
  • Sidney Root (1824–1897), American engineer and businessman
  • Stephen Root (born 1951), American actor
  • Tina Root, American singer
  • Tom Root (born 1973), American Emmy-winning TV writer and producer
  • Waverley Lewis Root (1903–1982), American journalist
  • Wilbur M. Root (1842–1916), American politician
  • William Lucas Root (1919–2007), American information theorist
  • William Pitt Root (born 1941), American poet

Fictional characters
  • Enoch Root, fictional character in The Baroque Cycle novels by Neal Stephenson
  • Hugo Root, fictional character in the comic book series Preacher
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See also
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