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 hermit) (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

Root (surname)

People

Fictional characters

See also