Church (surname)
Church is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert T. Church, vice-admiral in the United States Navy
- Alfred John Church, English classical scholar
- Alonzo Church, logician, famous for the Church-Turing thesis and lambda calculus
- Arthur Harry Church, British botanist and botanical illustrator
- Arthur Herbert Church, British chemist
- Austin Church, American physician and entrepreneur
- Captain Benjamin Church, colonial officer during King Philip's War
- Benjamin Church (physician), first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
- Benjamin Church (carpenter), American pioneer and builder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Bethine Clark Church, spouse of American senator Frank Church
- Brad Church, Canadian ice hockey player
- Charlotte Church, Welsh soprano singer and talk show host
- Doug Church, video-game designer
- Elihu Dwight Church, American book collector and philanthropist
- Ellen Church, first airline stewardess
- Eric Church, American country music singer
- Forrest Church, American minister, son of Senator Frank Church
- Francis Pharcellus Church, American writer
- Frank Church, four-term U.S. Senator from Idaho.
- Frederic Edwin Church, landscape painter
- Frederic A. Church, American engineer and early roller coaster designer.
- Frederick Stuart Church, American artist.
- George Church (geneticist), Harvard geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist, founder of the Personal Genome Project.
- George W. Church Sr., founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants
- Gerald Church, Scottish footballer
- Gordon Church, American gay murder victim
- Henry Church, American writer
- Henry Church (politician), American politician from Pennsylvania
- Kenneth Church, Canadian jockey
- James E. Church, pioneered the techniques used to measure snow and forecast seasonal water supplies
- John A. Church, an expert on sea-level and its changes
- Judith Church, a politician in the United Kingdom
- Leonard C. Church, American businessman, farmer, and politician
- Louis K. Church, New York Supreme Court justice
- Mary Church Terrell, American writer and civil-rights activist
- Maureen Elizabeth Church, Welsh botanist and botanical illustrator
- Michael Church, Grenadian politician
- Mike Church, a Southern United States radio commentator
- Richard Church (general), a British military officer and general in the Greek army
- Richard William Church, an English divine, nephew of the general
- Richard Church (poet), an English poet and man of letters
- Robert Reed Church, the first African-American millionaire
- Rosemary Church,, TV anchor
- Ryan Church, an American baseball player
- Simon Church, Welsh international footballer
- Thomas Church, a British colonial administrator under the British East India Company
- Thomas Church (landscape architect), American landscape architect
- Thomas Haden Church, American actor in television and film
- Thomas Langton Church, Canadian politician
- Walter G. Church Sr., member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- William Church, American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822