Butterfield (surname)
Butterfield is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Porter Butterfield, official in the Nixon administration during the Watergate scandal
- Asa Butterfield, English actor
- Benjamin Butterfield, British immigrant who was the founder of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, first Butterfield in America
- Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Brian James Butterfield, Third base coach and infield instructor for the Boston Red Sox
- Daniel Adams Butterfield, United States Civil War Union general, "Taps" composer
- Danny Butterfield, English footballer
- Dave Butterfield, American football player
- Deborah Kay Butterfield, U.S. artist
- Don Kiethly Butterfield, American tuba player
- G. K. Butterfield, member of U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
- Herbert Butterfield, historian, author of 'The Whig Interpretation of History'
- Isaac Butterfield, American officer in the revolutionary war who surrendered in the Battle of the Cedars to George Forster
- Jack Butterfield (ice hockey), president of the American Hockey League for 28 years from 1966 to 1994
- Jack Butterfield (baseball), college baseball coach at Maine and South Florida and New York Yankees executive
- Jack Butterfield (footballer), English footballer
- Jacob Luke Butterfield, English footballer
- James Butterfield, rower for Bermuda at the 1972 Olympics
- James Austin Butterfield, American composer of "When You and I Were Young, Maggie"
- Phillip James Butterfield Jr., an American football player and coach
- Jeff Butterfield, international rugby union player
- Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield, philosopher
- Jim Butterfield, Canadian computer programmer
- Jo Butterfield, British field athlete
- Jock Butterfield, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield, British medical researcher and administrator
- John Warren Butterfield, founder of Butterfield Overland Mail
- Orville Orland Butterfield, The false lynching of Orlando Butterfield, The Tuskegee Institute 24 July 1883 in the book Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772–1938
- Len Butterfield, New Zealand cricketer
- Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, religious writer
- Paul Vaughn Butterfield, American blues musician, singer and harmonica player
- Spencer Darren Butterfield, American basketball player
- Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr
- Taahira Naeema Butterfield, Bermudian sprinter
- Thomas Butterfield, Australian politician
- Thomas C. Butterfield, mayor of Cork, Ireland from 1916 to 1919
- Tony Butterfield, Australian rugby league footballer
- Tyler Barbour Butterfield, Bermudian cyclist and triathlete
- William Butterfield (British architect), British architect
- William Butterfield (American architect), American architect
- William Butterfield (auctioneer), founder of auction house Butterfield & Butterfield