Dale (surname)
Dale is a surname. Notable people with this name include:
Academics and scientists
- Amy Marjorie Dale, British classicist
- Angela Dale British statistician
- Edgar Dale, US educationist
- Henry Hallett Dale, English neuroscientist
- James Charles Dale, English entomologist
- Nellie Dale, British educator
- Peter Dale, British poet and translator
- Samuel Dale, English naturalist and physician
Entertainment industry professionals
- Alan Dale, New Zealand-born Australian actor
- Carlotta Dale ), American singer
- Charlie Dale, half of the American vaudeville comedy duo Smith and Dale
- Cynthia Dale, Canadian television dancer and actress
- Darren Dale, Australian film and television producer
- Esther Dale, American actress
- Ian Anthony Dale, American television actor
- James Badge Dale, American actor
- Jennifer Dale, Canadian television dancer and actress
- Virginia Dale, American film actress
Musicians
- Alan Dale (singer), American singer
- Benjamin Dale, English composer
- Dick Dale, American surf-rock musician and songwriter
- Felicia Dale, American folk music singer-songwriter
- Jim Dale, British singer, comedian and actor
- Jimmy Dale (musician), Canadian arranger, conductor, composer, pianist, and organist
- Kathleen Dale, composer, pianist and musicologist
- Mickey Dale, keyboardist with English rock band Embrace
Politicians
- Bob Dale (politician) South Australian unionist and politician
- Charles M. Dale, American jurist & politician
- Don Dale, in Northern Territory of Australia, eponym of the detention centre
- Iain Dale, British conservative blogger
- Porter H. Dale, US congressman and senator
- Shana Dale, American Deputy Administrator of NASA
- Thomas Dale, British naval commander Virginia deputy-governor
- Tony Dale, American politician
- William Dale (politician), politician and teetotaler in South Australia
Religious figures
- John Dale (minister), American minister Church of Christ
- Robert William Dale, English Nonconformist church leader
- T. Pelham Dale, Anglo-Catholic ritualist clergyman
Sportspeople
- Dale (Middlesex cricketer), English cricketer, playing 1789–1809
- Adam Dale, Australian cricketer
- Adrian Dale, South African cricketer
- Ajeet Singh Dale, English cricketer
- Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer
- Carl Dale, Welsh footballer
- Carroll Dale, American football wide receiver
- D. J. Dale, American football player
- Dominic Dale, Welsh professional snooker player and commentator
- Eleanor Dale, English footballer
- Harry Dale, English footballer
- Jerry Dale, American baseball umpire
- Jimmy Dale, Scottish footballer
- Johannes Dale, Norwegian biathlete
- John Dale (cricketer, born 1848), English rower and cricketer
- Kari Brattset Dale Norwegian handball player
- Mark Dale, English cricketer
- Owen Dale, English footballer
- Roland Dale, American football player
- Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
Others
- Arch Dale, political cartoonist
- David Dale, Scottish industrialist and philanthropist
- George Dale (criminal), American executed murderer
- Louise Boyd Dale, American philatelist
- Richard Dale, American Continental Navy commodore
- Robert Dale (explorer), European explorer of Australia
- T. Lawrence Dale, English architect
Fictional characters
- Jimmie Dale, a pulp fiction character blackmailed into fighting crime
- Joan Dale, the first Miss America (DC Comics)
- Philip F. "Duckie" Dale, a character in ''Pretty in Pink''