List of Famous people with last name Wakefield

Sir Edward Birkbeck Wakefield, 1st Baronet, was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician.

Daniel Bell Wakefield was born in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England. He practised law in London and was involved in planning a colony in South Australia. He migrated to New Zealand in 1842 where he served as attorney general for New Munster Province, and as a temporary judge in the Supreme Court.

Priscilla Wakefield, nee Priscilla Bell was an English Quaker philanthropist. Her writings include feminist economics and scientific subjects, and children's non-fiction.

Charles Cheers Wakefield, 1st Viscount Wakefield, GCVO, CBE, was an English businessman who founded the Castrol lubricants company, was lord mayor of London and was a significant philanthropist.

Edward Jerningham Wakefield, known as Jerningham Wakefield, was the only son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. As such, he was closely associated with his father's interest in colonisation. He worked for the New Zealand Company and later was a member of the Canterbury Association. He was active as a politician in New Zealand, both at national and provincial level, but became an alcoholic and died penniless in an old people's home.