Waite (name)
Waite is an English surname and rarely a given name. Its variant forms include Wait, Wayte, Waits and Waight. It is derived from the old high German wahten ; it is common in the sense of guard or watchman to all the Teutonic languages, the German wacht, Dutch vaght, Swedish vakt and English watch. When used as a verb, its meaning is "to stay in expectation of"; as a noun, it denotes a minstrel watchmen.
Waite is an occupational name for a watchman either in a town or castle from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman member of the watch’.
The following are named Waite.
Surname
- Arthur Edward Waite, British poet and scholarly mystic
- Arthur Waite (racing driver), Australian racing driver
- Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite, American author, lawyer and women's suffrage activist
- C. B. Waite, American photographer
- Charlie Waite, English photographer
- Charles Burlingame Waite, American lawyer, jurist and author
- Daisy Waite, British-Chinese actress and model
- David Waite, Australian rugby league coach
- Davis Hanson Waite, governor of Colorado
- Edgar Ravenswood Waite, Australian zoologist
- Edward Wilkins Waite, English landscape painter
- Fred Waite, American cowboy, member of Billy the Kid's gang and later Chickasaw Nation legislator and attorney general
- Fred Waite (politician), New Zealand soldier and politician
- Genevieve Waite, South African actress, singer and model
- Grant Waite, New Zealand golfer
- Henry Waite (disambiguation)
- Jahmali Waite, American soccer goalkeeper
- James Waite (footballer, born 1999), Welsh footballer
- Jamie Waite, Thai football goalkeeper
- Jarrad Waite, former Australian rules footballer
- Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey coach and goaltender
- John Waite (disambiguation)
- Joseph Waite, a Latin and Greek scholar who edited the book Latin and Greek verse by Thomas Saunders Evans
- Keith Waite, New Zealand-born English editorial cartoonist
- Linda Waite, American sociologist and social demographer
- Martin Waite, Scottish former international rugby union player
- Matthew Waite, English cricketer
- Mitchell Waite, author of books on electronics and computing
- Morrison Waite, American attorney, jurist, politician, and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Nicholas Waite, English governor of Bombay
- Norman Waite, English footballer
- P. B. Waite, Canadian historian
- Pete Waite, American volleyball coach
- Peter Waite (philanthropist), South Australian pastoralist, businessman, company director and philanthropist
- Ralph Waite, American actor, best known for the role of John Walton on the TV series The Waltons
- Reginald Waite, Royal Air Force officer
- Ric Waite, American cinematographer
- Terry Waite, British human rights activist and author
- Thomas Waite (regicide), English Member of Parliament and one of the regicides of King Charles I
- Thomas Waite (civil servant), Under-Secretary for Ireland
- Tommy Waite, Northern Irish boxer
Given name
- Waite Hoyt, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Waite Phillips, American petroleum businessman and philanthropist
- Waite Stirling, English missionary and first Anglican bishop of the Falkland Islands
Fictional characters
- Asenath and Ephraim Waite, in "The Thing on the Doorstep", an H.P. Lovecraft short story