List of Famous people with last name Southey

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet laureate from 1813 until his death. Like the other Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Southey had begun as a radical, but became steadily more conservative, as he acquired respect for Britain and its institutions. Other romantics, notably Byron, accused him of siding with the establishment for money and status. He is principally remembered as author of the poem After Blenheim and the original version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Sir Robert John Southey was an Australian businessman, who was president of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1970 to 1975, and chairman of The Australian Ballet Foundation from 1980 to 1990.

Marigold Merlyn Baillieu Southey, Lady Southey is an Australian philanthropist who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 2001 to 2006.

Henry Herbert Southey M.D. (1784–1865) was an English physician.