Wolton (surname)

Wolton or Woolton is an English toponymic surname, deriving from a place name (Woolton) in Kent or Lancashire.^[1] People with the name include:

• Althea Wolton (née Willoughby, 1904–1982), British artist
• Bert Wolton (1929 – 1990), English cricketer
• Dominique Wolton [fr] (b. 1947), French sociologist
• Douglas Wolton (1898 – 1988), British communist activist
• Georgie Wolton, (born 1934), British architect
• Thierry Wolton [fr] (born 1951), French journalist and essayist
• John Woolton (1535?–1594), Bishop of Exeter