Dudley (surname)
Dudley is an English toponymic surname associated with the town of Dudley in West Midlands, England. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, English general and patron of moderate Puritanism
- Andrew Dudley, English soldier and courtier
- Angela Dudley, South African laser scientist
- Anne Dudley, English composer and pop musician
- Anne Dudley, maiden name of American poet Anne Bradstreet
- Becca Dudley, English presenter and DJ
- Benjamin Winslow Dudley, American surgeon and academic in Kentucky.
- Bill Dudley, American football player
- Billy Dudley, Nigerian political scientist
- Bob Dudley, chief executive officer of BP
- Carl Dudley, American film director and producer
- Charles Benjamin Dudley, American chemist
- Chris Dudley, American basketball player
- Dave Dudley, American country singer
- Doc Dudley, Negro league baseball player
- Doris Dudley, American actress
- Dudd Dudley, pioneer English metallurgist
- Ed Dudley, American golfer
- Edmund Dudley, English politician in the Tudor period
- Edward Bishop Dudley, American politician, 28th governor of North Carolina
- Elizabeth Henry Haywood Dudley, American political hostess
- Ernest Dudley, British writer
- George Dudley, Canadian ice hockey administrator and Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
- Lord Guildford Dudley, husband of Lady Jane Grey
- Helena Dudley American social worker, labor organizer, and pacifist
- Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier, sailor, diplomat, and conspirator
- Homer Dudley, American inventor of the vocoder.
- James Dudley, American baseball player and professional wrestling manager and executive
- James B. Dudley, president of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
- Jane Dudley, American dancer, choreographer and teacher
- Jane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland, wife of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland
- Janet Dudley-Eshbach, President of Salisbury University, Maryland
- Jared Dudley, American basketball player
- Jimmy Dudley, American sportscaster
- John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, English general, supported claims of Lady Jane Grey
- John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, son of the 1st Duke of Northumberland
- Joseph Dudley, a colonial governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas Dudley
- Katherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of the 1st Duke of Northumberland
- Margaret Johnson Erwin Dudley, American plantation owner
- Marion Dudley, American murderer
- Mary Dudley, Lady Sidney, English lady-in-waiting, mother of Sir Philip Sydney
- Sir Matthew Dudley, English politician
- Nathan Dudley, acting brigadier general for the Union Army in the American Civil War
- Owen Francis Dudley English novelist and priest
- Paul Dudley (jurist), Attorney General of Massachusetts, son of Joseph Dudley
- Paul Dudley (American football)
- Peter Dudley, English character actor
- Richard M. Dudley, mathematics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rick Dudley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- Robert Charles Dudley, British painter.
- Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, favourite and suitor of Queen Elizabeth I
- Robert Dudley (explorer), English explorer and cartographer
- Robert Dudley Edwards, historian
- Roger Dudley, English soldier
- Sherman H. Dudley, American vaudeville performer and producer, theater owner
- Terence Dudley, British television director and producer
- Theodore Robert Dudley, American botanist
- Thomas Dudley, colonial magistrate and governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Underwood Dudley, American mathematician
- Uriah Dudley, mine manager in Australia
- William Dudley (colonel), Kentucky militia officer in the War of 1812
- William Dudley (bishop), Bishop of Durham
- William Dudley, British theatre designer
- William C. Dudley, economist at the New York Federal Reserve
- William Edward Dudley, administrator in the British co-operative movement
- William S. Dudley, U.S. naval historian
- William Wade Dudley, American soldier, lawyer and politician
- Members of The Dudley Brothers, a professional wrestling stable :
- * Big Dick Dudley
- * Bubba Ray Dudley
- * Chubby Dudley
- * D-Von Dudley
- * Dances with Dudley
- * Dudley Dudley (wrestler)
- * Sign Guy Dudley, wrestling manager and later a marketing executive outside of wrestling
- * Snot Dudley
- * Spike Dudley