Wentworth is a surname which may refer to:
People
Ali Wentworth, American actress
Austin Wentworth (born 1990), American football player
Benning Wentworth (1696–1770), governor of New Hampshire under King George II and King George III D'Arcy Wentworth (1762–1827), surgeon in the early days of Sydney, Australia, and father of William Charles Wentworth I D'Arcy Wentworth, Jr. (1793–1861), son of D'Arcy Wentworth, army officer and New South Wales politician Erastus Wentworth (1813–1886), educator, Methodist Episcopal minister and missionary to China Frederick Wentworth, 3rd Earl of Strafford (1732–1799), British peer Harold Wentworth (1904-1965), American lexicographer Henry Wentworth (c. 1448 – between 1499 and 1501), de jure Lord Despenser and grandfather of Jane Seymour Jeff Wentworth (born 1940), member of the Texas State Senate from San Antonio John Wentworth (Lieutenant-Governor) (1671–1730), colonial Lieutenant-Governor of New Hampshire John Wentworth (judge) (1719–1781), jurist and revolutionary leader in New Hampshire John Wentworth (governor) (1737–1820), colonial governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia John Wentworth (mayor) (1815–1888) Chicago mayor and U.S Congressman John Wentworth Jr. (1745–1787), Continental Congress delegate from New Hampshire John Wentworth (actor) (1908–1989), British television actor Margery Wentworth (c. 1478 – 1550), mother of Jane Seymour Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942), American playwright, poet, and suffragist Martha Wentworth (1889–1974), American actress Moses J. Wentworth, American politician Mungo Wentworth MacCallum (1941–2020), Australian political journalist Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961), mystery writer Paul Wentworth (1533–1593), English Member of Parliament Paul Wentworth (spy) (c. 1736-1793) a lawyer and plantation owner in Surinam Sir Peter Wentworth (1529–1596), English Member of Parliament, brother of Paul Sir Peter Wentworth (Parliamentarian) (1592–1675), English Parliamentarian, grandson of the above Peter Philip Wentworth (1424–1464), English knight and Usher of the King's Chamber Stephen G. Wentworth (1811–1897), founder of Wentworth Military Academy Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth (1501–1551), Lord Chamberlain of England Thomas Wentworth, 2nd Baron Wentworth (1525–1584), son of the 1st Baron Wentworth, blamed for England's loss of Calais to France in 1558 Thomas Wentworth (Recorder of Oxford) (c. 1568–1628), English Member of Parliament and lawyer Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland (1591–1667), Royalist military leader during the English Civil War Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593–1641), English statesman, a major figure in the events leading up to the English Civil War Thomas Wentworth, 5th Baron Wentworth (1613–1665), son of the 1st Earl of Cleveland, Member of Parliament and also a Royalist military leader Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672–1739), diplomat and First Lord of the Admiralty Thomas Wentworth (general), British major-general in charge of land forces during the 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias Vera Wentworth (1890 – 1957), British suffragist William Wentworth (elder), founder of the Wentworth family in America William Charles Wentworth I (1790–1872), Australian explorer, journalist and politician William Charles Wentworth IV (1907–2003), Australian politician, and noted anti-Communist
Fictional characters
Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion), a main character in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion Richard Wentworth, pulp magazine character as The Spider Lovey (Wentworth) Howell, wife of Thurston Howell III of Gilligan's Island