Taft is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
William Howard Taft (1857–1930), 27th president of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States The Taft family, a political dynasty that includes the above-named president: The Tafts of Mendon and Uxbridge, Massachusetts: Robert Taft Sr. (c. 1640–1725), immigrant, patriarch of the Taft family, and ancestor of President Taft Robert Taft, 2nd (1674–1748), colonial-born pioneer son of Robert Taft Sr., he founded the Tafts of Ohio Josiah Taft (1709–1756), grandson of Robert Sr and husband of Lydia Chapin Taft Lydia Chapin Taft (1712–1778), widow of Josiah and the first woman to vote in colonial America Peter Rawson Taft (1785–1867), descendant of Robert Sr, grandfather of President Taft, and a Vermont legislator The Tafts of Ohio: Alphonso Taft (1810–1891), Attorney General and Secretary of War of the United States, co-founder of Skull and Bones, descendant of Robert Sr, and father of President Taft Louise Taft (1827–1907), second wife of Alphonse and mother of the president Henry Waters Taft (1859–1945), American lawyer and brother of the president Charles Phelps Taft (1843–1929), American lawyer and brother of the president Horace Dutton Taft (1861–1943), American educator and brother of the president Robert A. Taft (1889–1953), United States senator from Ohio, son of the president Robert Taft Jr. (1917–1993), Robert A. Taft's son, 1960s U.S. representative and 1970s U.S. Senator from Ohio Bob Taft (born 1942), Robert A. Taft's grandson, a governor of Ohio Bill Taft, American rock musician Catherine Taft, American art critic Earl Taft (1931–2021), American mathematician, husband of Hessy George Taft (born 1993), English footballer Hessy Levinsons Taft (born 1934), Jewish child model for Nazi propaganda, wife of Earl Lorado Taft (1860–1936), American sculptor Kevin Taft (born 1955), Canadian politician Robert F. Taft (1932–2018), a Jesuit priest Jerry Taft (1943–2020), American meteorologist
See also
Justice Taft (disambiguation)