Thorpe (surname)
Thorpe is a surname derived from the Middle English word thorp, meaning hamlet or small village. Thorpe is found as the name of many places in England.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Thorpe, British author
- Adelbert Delos Thorp, American politician in Wisconsin
- Aidey Thorpe, English footballer
- Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American BSC, MI6, and OSS agent during WWII
- Alma Thorpe, Aboriginal Australian activist and elder
- Ashley Thorpe, Australian cricketer
- Benjamin Thorpe, English scholar of Anglo-Saxon
- Billy Thorpe, Australian rock and roll musician
- Chris Thorpe, U.S. Olympic luge athlete
- Clarence Thorpe (baseball), American Negro league pitcher
- David Thorpe (artist), English artist
- David Thorpe (footballer), Australian rules footballer
- David Thorpe (motorcyclist), British motorcycle racer, 500cc Motocross World Champion in 1985, 1986 and 1989
- D. R. Thorpe, British historian and biographer
- Drew Thorpe, American baseball player
- Ethel L. M. Thorpe, British-Canadian nurse
- Frank Thorpe (public servant), Australian senior public servant
- George Thorpe (disambiguation), several people
- Graham Thorpe, English cricketer
- Harriet Thorpe, English actress
- Heath Thorpe, Australian artistic gymnast
- Hugh Thorpe, English MP
- Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
- Jeremy Thorpe, British politician, MP and leader of the Liberal Party
- Jerry Thorpe, American TV and film director
- Jim Thorpe, U.S. athlete
- Jim Thorpe (Canadian football), Canadian football player
- Jim Thorpe (golfer), American professional golfer
- Jimmy Thorpe, English professional footballer
- Jimmy Thorpe (footballer, born 1879), English professional footballer
- Jocelyn Field Thorpe, British chemist
- John Thorpe, English architect
- John Wells-Thorpe, English architect
- Kay Thorpe, British romantic novelist
- Laura Thorpe, French tennis player
- Lee Thorpe, English footballer
- Lewis Thorpe, British academic
- Lewis Thorpe (baseball), Australian baseball player
- Lidia Thorpe, Australian politician
- Marjorie Thorpe, Trinidadian academic, lecturer and former diplomat
- Marjorie Thorpe (Aboriginal Australian), daughter of Alma Thorpe and mother of Lidia Thorpe
- Mathew Thorpe, senior judge in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales
- Matilda Thorpe, English actress
- Otis Thorpe, American professional basketball player
- Percy Thorpe, English footballer
- Richard Thorpe, American film director
- Richard Thorpe (rugby union), English rugby union player
- Robert Thorpe (disambiguation), several people
- Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American writer
- Samuel Thorp or Thorpe, English clockmaker
- Thomas Thorpe, Elizabethan publisher of Shakespeare's sonnets
- Thomas Edward Thorpe, British chemist
- Tom Thorpe, English footballer
- Tommy Thorpe, English footballer and cricketer
- Tony Thorpe, English footballer and manager
- William de Thorpe, 14th-century English Chief Justice
- William Thorpe, putative author of 1407 Lollard text The Testimony of William Thorpe
- William Homan Thorpe, British ethologist