Sweet (surname)
Appearance
Sweet is an Anglo-Saxon surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alec Stone Sweet, Yale Law School professor, musician and pétanque player
- Alanson Sweet (1804-1891), American businessman and politician
- Apollo Sweet (born 1957), Samoan/Australian boxer of the 1980s and '90s
- Blanche Sweet (1896–1986), silent film actress
- Brad Sweet (born 1985), American race car driver
- Burton E. Sweet (1867-1957), American politician
- Darrell Sweet (musician) (1947-1999), co-founder and drummer of the band Nazareth
- Darrell K. Sweet (1934-2011), American illustrator
- David Sweet (disambiguation)
- Denise Sweet, Native American poet and academic, appointed Poet Laureate of Wisconsin in 2004
- Dolph Sweet (1920–1985), American actor
- Don Sweet (born 1948), former Canadian Football League kicker
- Elnathan Sweet (1837–1903), New York State Engineer and Surveyor 1884–1887
- Edwin F. Sweet (1847–1935), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Gary Sweet (born 1957), Australian film and television actor
- George Sweet (1844–1920), English-born Australian geologist
- Henry Sweet (1845–1912), English philologist, phonetician and grammarian
- Herbert J. Sweet (1919–1998), fourth Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps
- John Sweet (disambiguation)
- Leonard Sweet (born 1961), author, preacher, scholar, and ordained United Methodist clergyman
- Lynn Sweet (born 1961), Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and columnist
- Lynn Sweet (American football) (1881-1918), American football player
- Matthew Sweet (born 1964), alternative rock musician
- Melissa Sweet, Australian human health and medicine journalist
- Melissa Sweet (born 1956), American children's illustrator who won the 2012 Sibert Medal
- Michael Sweet (disambiguation)
- Ossian Sweet (1895–1960), American physician
- Rachel Sweet (born 1962), American singer, writer and actress
- Robert Sweet (disambiguation)
- Sylvanus H. Sweet (1830–1899), New York State Engineer and Surveyor 1874–1875
- Thaddeus C. Sweet (1872–1928), New York politician
- William Sweet (disambiguation)
- Willis Sweet (1856-1925), American politician