Ayrton - Surname

Surname

• Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British Liberal politician, uncle of William Edward Ayrton
• Barbara Ayrton-Gould (c. 1886 – 1950), a Labour politician in the United Kingdom
• Edmund Ayrton (1734–1808), English organist
• Edward R. Ayrton (1882–1914), British Egyptologist
• Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), British mathematician and physicist, second wife of William Edward Ayrton
• Neil Ayrton (born 1962), former English professional footballer
• Norman Ayrton (born 1924), English actor, director, and theatre instructor
• Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (1846–1883), doctor of medicine, first wife of William Edward Ayrton
• Maxwell Ayrton (1874–1960), Scottish architect
• Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), British artist
• Randle Ayrton (1869–1940), British actor, producer and director
• William Edward Ayrton (1847–1908), British physicist who taught in Japan