Pendleton (name)
Pendleton is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Alan George Pendleton, South Australian Railways official
- Alexander Sandie Pendleton, Confederate staff officer serving Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson
- Austin Pendleton,, American film, television, and stage actor
- Brian Pendleton, guitarist with British group The Pretty Things in the 1960s
- Charles F. Pendleton, Medal of Honor recipient in US Army during the Korean War
- Chris Pendleton, American amateur wrestler
- Don Pendleton, American author, creator of the Mack Bolan character
- Edmund Pendleton, American politician, lawyer, and judge, delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia
- Edmund Henry Pendleton, U.S. Representative from New York
- Edmund J. Pendleton, American composer
- Ellen Fitz Pendleton, American college president
- Florence Pendleton, shadow senator from the District of Columbia
- Freddie Pendleton, retired professional boxer
- George C. Pendleton, Democratic politician, Texas state representative and speaker, Texas lieutenant governor, and U.S. Representative
- George H. Pendleton, American politician, senator from Ohio, eponym of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
- Henry Pendleton, English churchman, theologian
- Isaac Pendleton, US sailor, captain of the brig
- Jack J. Pendleton, US Army soldier and WWII Medal of Honor recipient
- Jim Pendleton, American professional baseball player
- James M. Pendleton, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
- James Madison Pendleton, 19th-century Baptist preacher, educator and theologian
- Joey Pendleton, Democratic member and minority whip of the Kentucky Senate
- John Pendleton, 19th-century Virginia congressman, diplomat, lawyer and farmer
- John Pendleton, Jr., acting governor of Virginia in 1799
- John O. Pendleton, U.S. Representative from West Virginia
- Joseph Henry Pendleton, American Marine Corps general, eponym of Camp Pendleton
- Karen Pendleton, original Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeer
- Lance Pendleton, American professional baseball player
- Linwood Pendleton, American environmental economist, acting chief economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Moses Pendleton, choreographer, dancer and artistic director of dance company MOMIX
- Nat Pendleton, American Olympic wrestler and film actor
- Nathaniel Pendleton, US lawyer and judge during the American Revolutionary War and afterward
- Nathanael G. Pendleton, U.S. Representative from Ohio
- Olga Pendleton, American statistician
- Philip C. Pendleton, US federal judge in Virginia
- Robert Larimore Pendleton, American soil scientist
- Steve Pendleton, American film actor
- Terry Pendleton, American professional baseball player 1984–1998
- Victoria Pendleton, British track cyclist
- William Frederic Pendleton, first executive bishop of General Church of the New Jerusalem
- William N. Pendleton, American teacher, Episcopal priest, and Confederate general
- William W. Pendleton, former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
- Pendleton Murrah, American politician, governor of Texas during the American Civil War
- Pendleton Ward, American animator, musician, screenwriter, and producer
- Edmund Pendleton Gaines, United States Army Major General, namesake of Fort Gaines, Alabama
- Treavor Pendleton, a fictional character from the 2012 video game Dishonored by Arkane Studios
- Murphy Pendleton, a fictional character and protagonist of the 2012 video game Silent Hill: Downpour
- Forsythe Pendleton "Jughead" Jones III is one of the fictional characters created by Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater in Archie Comics