Armitage (surname)

Armitage is a surname.

Persons

Notable people with the name include:

• Alan Armitage (born 1930), English cricketer
• Albert Armitage (1864–1943), Scottish explorer
• Alison Armitage (born 1965), British actress
• Allan Armitage, professor of horticulture
• Arnold Armitage (1899–1991), British-American artist and illustrator
• Bernard Armitage (1890–1976), English physician
• Cecil Hamilton Armitage (1869–1933), British colonial official in West Africa
• Charles Armitage (1849–1917), English cricketer
• David Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • David Armitage (historian) (born 1965), British historian
  • David Armitage (footballer) (born 1988), Australian footballer
  • David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979), British ornithologist
• Delon Armitage (born 1983), rugby union footballer
• Edward Armitage (1817–1896), English painter
• Edward Liddall Armitage (1887–1967), English stained glass artist
• Edward Armitage (cricketer) (1891–1957), English cricketer
• Elkanah Armitage (1794–1876), English industrialist
• Ethel Armitage (1873–1957), British archer
• Flora Anne Armitage (1911–1995), British-born American biographer and novelist
• Frank Armitage (1924–2016), Australian-born American painter and muralist for Disney
• George Armitage (born 1942), American film director
• Guy Armitage (born 1991), English rugby union player
• Harry Armitage (1901–1973), English footballer
• Heather Armitage (born 1933), British athlete
• Iain Armitage (born 2008), American actor
• Jill Armitage, English writer on the paranormal
• John Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • John Armitage (politician) (1920–2009), Australian politician
  • John Armitage (editor) (1910–1980), British editor of Encyclopædia Britannica
• Karole Armitage (born 1954), American dancer and choreographer
• Ken Armitage (1920–1952), English footballer
• Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002), British sculptor
• Louis Armitage (1921–2000), English footballer
• Michael Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Michael Armitage (politician) (born 1949), former Australian politician
  • Michael Armitage (RAF officer) (born 1930), Royal Air Force commander
• Norman Armitage (1907–1972), American Olympic fencer
• Peter Armitage (born 1924), English medical statistician
• Peter Armitage (actor) (1940–2018), British actor
• Reginald Armitage (1898–1954), British composer, better known as Noel Gay
• Reginald S. Armitage (1892–1955), vice-president of forest company Price Brothers Limited, in Canada.
• Richard Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Richard Armitage (agent) (1928–1986), English talent agent
  • Richard Armitage (actor) (born 1971), English actor
  • Richard Armitage (politician) (born 1945), American politician
• Robert Armitage (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
  • Robert Armitage (politician) (1866–1944), British Member of Parliament for Leeds Central
  • Robert Perceval Armitage (1906–1990), British colonial administrator in Africa
  • Robert Armitage (GC) (1905–1982), British bomb disposal expert and George Cross recipient
• Rosemary Armitage (born 1955), Australian politician
• Simon Armitage (born 1963), British poet, novelist and playwright
• Steffon Armitage (born 1985), rugby union footballer
• Steve Armitage (born 1944), English-born Canadian sports reporter
• Thomas Armitage (1824–1890), British physician and founder of the Royal National Institute of the Blind
• Tom Armitage (1848–1922), English cricketer
• Vernon Armitage (1842–1911), English cricketer and lawyer
• William Edmond Armitage (1830–1873), American clergyman

Fictional characters

• Armitage, a character in the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Armitage Hux, general of the First Order in the Star Wars sequel trilogy
• Detective-Judge Armitage, a character in a spin-off from Judge Dredd
• Mrs Armitage, eponymous heroine of a series of books by Quentin Blake
• Arthur Armitage, a character in G. K. Chesterton's short story "The Finger of Stone"
• Henry Armitage, a character in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Dunwich Horror"
• Jake Armitage, a Shadowrunner in the SNES RPG Shadowrun (SNES)
• Naomi Armitage, an android in the anime series Armitage III
• Willy Armitage, an IMF agent in the TV series Mission: Impossible
• The Armitage family are the central antagonists of the 2017 American horror film Get Out.

See also

• Armitage (disambiguation)