List of Famous people with last name Newell

Alex Eugene Newell is an American actor and singer. He is known for his roles as Unique Adams on the Fox musical series Glee and Mo on Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. He also starred as Asaka in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island at the Circle in the Square Theater in 2018. As a singer, Newell has released tracks with Clean Bandit, Blonde, and The Knocks.

Gabe Logan Newell, nicknamed Gaben, is an American businessman, the co-founder and president of the video game developer and digital distribution company Valve. He was educated at Davis Senior High School and attended Harvard University in the early 1980s before dropping out to join Microsoft, where he helped create the first iterations of the Windows operating system. Together with Mike Harrington, he left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve. As of 2020, he had a net worth of approximately US$4 billion .

Colin Newell, known as Heavy D or The Boominator, was a British TV personality.

Nick Newell is an American mixed martial artist, currently signed to Bellator MMA, competing in the lightweight division.

Michael Cormac Newell is an English director and producer of motion pictures for film and television. Newell is best known for directing the films Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology. He contributed to the Information Processing Language (1956) and two of the earliest AI programs, the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957). He was awarded the ACM's A.M. Turing Award along with Herbert A. Simon in 1975 for their basic contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.