Root (surname)
Root is a surname, and may refer to:
People
- Amanda Root (born 1963), British actress
- Amos Root, American beekeeper
- Antony Root, British scriptwriter and drama producer
- Bill Root (born 1959), Canadian ice-hockey player
- Bill Root (bridge) (1923–2002), American bridge player
- Budd Root, comic book artist
- Charlie Root, American baseball player
- Edmund Root, American naval officer
- Edward Root, Australian rugby league footballer
- Eleazer Root, 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, American inventor
- Erastus Root (1773–1846), US congressman from, and lieutenant governor of, New York
- Fred Root, English cricketer
- George Frederick Root, American songwriter
- Gladys Root, American criminal defense attorney
- Gloria Root, American model
- James Root, American guitarist
- Jane Root, British television executive
- Jesse Root, American jurist
- Joan Root (1936–2006), British (Kenyan-born) ecological activist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker
- Joe Root, 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.
- Joseph Pomeroy Root, 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, American physician
- Martha Root, American teacher of the Bahá'í Faith
- Melina Root, American Emmy-winning costume designer
- Richard Root (1938–2006), American epidemiologist
- Robert Root-Bernstein, MacArthur fellow and professor of life sciences at Michigan State University
- Sidney Root (1824–1897), American engineer and businessman
- Stephen Root, American actor
- Tina Root, American singer
- Tom Root, American Emmy-winning TV writer and producer
- Waverley Lewis Root, 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
- Sheriff Hugo Root, fictional character in the comic book series Preacher (comics).
See also
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