Appleton (surname)
Appleton is an Anglo-Saxon locational surname.
It is borne by:
People
- Alistair Appleton, British television presenter
- Charles Appleton (academic), Oxford don and scholarly entrepreneur
- Charles Appleton (cricketer), English amateur cricketer
- Charles William Appleton, vice president of the General Electric Company, judge and Assistant District Attorney in New York City
- Colin Appleton, English football player and manager
- Daniel Appleton, American publisher, founder of D. Appleton & Company
- Edward Victor Appleton, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his research on the ionosphere
- Edwin Nelson Appleton, United States Marine and Medal of Honor recipient
- Elizabeth Lachlan, née Appleton, British writer and education advocate
- Francis R. Appleton, American lawyer and member of the 400 during the Gilded Age
- Frederick Charles Appleton, Australian actor
- George Swett Appleton, American publisher
- Henry Appleton (anarchist)
- Henry Appleton (captain), English captain in the navy and commodore
- James Appleton, American abolitionist
- Jean Appleton, Australian painter, art teacher and printmaker
- John Appleton (disambiguation)
- Jon Appleton, American composer, author and professor of music
- Mason Appleton, American ice hockey player
- Michael Appleton, English football manager and former player
- Mike Appleton, British television producer
- Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born British singer
- Nathan Appleton, American merchant, entrepreneur and politician
- Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born British singer, sister of Natalie Appleton
- Ray Appleton, American jazz drummer
- Ruel Ross Appleton, campaign manager for Mayor Gaynor of New York City
- Samuel Appleton (merchant), American merchant and philanthropist
- Scott Appleton, American football player
- Stevie Appleton, British singer
- Thomas Gold Appleton, American author and artist
- William Appleton (politician), congressman from Massachusetts
- Will Appleton, mayor of Wellington, New Zealand
- William Sumner Appleton, founder Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
- William M. Appleton, Pennsylvania politician
- William Henry Appleton, American publisher
- William Appleton (entrepreneur), American entrepreneur and technologist
- William H. Appleton, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
- William Thomas Appleton, Australian businessman, shipping agent and public servant
Fictional characters
- the title character of Elizabeth Appleton, a 1963 novel by John O'Hara
- Larry Appleton, from the TV series ''Perfect Strangers''