Walcott (surname)

Walcott is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Arthur Walcott (1857–1934), a British actor of the silent era
• Bess Bolden Walcott (1886–1988), African American educator, librarian, curator and activist
• Charles Walcott (MP) (1733–1799), British politician
• Charles Doolittle Walcott, American invertebrate paleontologist, discovered the Burgess Shale
• Charles F. Walcott, American Union brevet brigadier general during the period of the American Civil War.
• Clyde Walcott (1926–2006), a West Indian cricketer
• Collin Walcott (1945–1984), a North American musician.
• Dennis Walcott, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education
• Derek Walcott (1930–2017), Nobel laureate, poet, writer and artist of the post-colonial school of English language writing
• Frederic C. Walcott (1869–1949), a United States Senator from Connecticut
• George Walcott (1914–1964), American film actor
• Gregory Walcott (1928–2015), American actor and producer
• Harry Mills Walcott (1870–1944), a leading American painter and teacher of early 20th century
• Jacob Walcott, an English footballer who plays for North Leigh
• Jennifer Walcott, Playboy playmate
• Jersey Joe Walcott (1914–1994), born Arnold Raymond Cream, a world heavyweight boxing champion - often compared to former world welterweight champion Barbados Joe Walcott, thus nicknamed Jersey Joe Walcott
• Joe Walcott (1873–1935), boxer from British Guiana, a world welterweight champion
• Keshorn Walcott, Trinidadian javelin thrower
• Leslie Walcott (1894–1984), a West Indian cricketer who played for Barbados
• Mary Vaux Walcott (1860–1940), an American artist and naturalist
• Richard Irving Walcott (1933– ), New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics
• Robert John Walcott (1839–1875), Attorney-General of Western Australia (1870-1872), Chief Justice of British Honduras (1872–1875)
• Roderick Walcott (1930–2000), a St Lucian playwright, screenwriter, painter and theatre director
• Sir Stephen Walcott (1807–1887), Commissioner of the U.K. Government Emigration Board
• Theo Walcott, an English footballer who plays for Southampton
• Yasmine Lyndell Walcott, Miss St. Lucia in 1994 and Consul General of St. Lucia in Martinique
• William Walcot (1874–1943), a British architect graphic artist and etcher, notable as a practitioner of refined Art Nouveau