Yaxley (surname)
Yaxley is an English toponymic surname, which along with dialectal variants, Yexley, Yoakley, Yockley, and Yokley, may derive from any of the English places that bore this name, including Yaxley, Cambridgeshire and Yaxley, Suffolk. "Yacksley" is a variant form.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Francis Yaxley, English politician and conspirator
- Greta Yaxley, television cook
- John Yaxley, English lawyer and MP
- John Francis Yaxley, civil servant in the UK Colonial Office
- Peter Yaxley, New Zealand rugby league player and referee
- Richard Yaxley, Catholic martyr
- Robert Yaxley, Royal Air Force pilot and commander during the Second World War
- Sandra Yaxley, Australian swimmer with cerebral palsy, won gold in 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, British far-right political activist