Axtell (surname)

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Axtell is an English surname. Notable people with this surname include the following:

  • Charles Axtell (1859–1932), American sport shooter, who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics
  • Daniel Axtell (1622–1660), captain of the Parliamentary Guard at the trial of King Charles I
  • Frances Cleveland Axtell (1866-1953), one of the first female legislators in the United States of America
  • George C. Axtell (1920–2011), Lieutenant General of the United States Marine Corps.
  • James Axtell (born 1941), professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia
  • James Wickliffe Axtell (1852–1909), newspaper man and prominent member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
  • Robert Axtell, professor in Computational Social Science at George Mason University
  • Samuel Beach Axtell (1819–1891), controversial Chief Justice of the New Mexico Territorial Supreme Court