List of Famous people with last name Macnaghten

Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten, was an Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, Conservative-Unionist politician and law lord.

Elliot Macnaghten (1807–1888) J.P., also known as also known as Elliot Workman-Macnaghten, was a British official of the East India Company. He was its Chairman in 1855.

Sir Malcolm Martin Macnaghten KBE, QC, was a Northern Ireland Unionist politician and judge, the fourth son of Lord Macnaghten, Bt..

Sir Melville Leslie Macnaghten was Assistant Commissioner (Crime) of the London Metropolitan Police from 1903 to 1913. A highly regarded and famously affable figure of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras he played major investigative roles in cases that led to the establishment and acceptance of fingerprint identification. He was also a major player in the pursuit and capture of Dr. Crippen, and of the exoneration of a wrongly convicted man, Adolph Beck, which helped lead to the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907.