Butterfield (surname)

Butterfield is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Porter Butterfield (born 1926), official in the Nixon administration during the Watergate scandal
• Asa Butterfield (born 1997), English actor
• Benjamin Butterfield, British immigrant who was the founder of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, first Butterfield in America
• Billy Butterfield (aka Charles William Butterfield) (1917–1988), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
• Brian James Butterfield (born 1958), Third base coach and infield instructor for the Boston Red Sox
• Daniel Adams Butterfield (1831–1901), United States Civil War Union general, "Taps" composer
• Danny Butterfield (aka Daniel Paul Butterfield) (born 1979), English footballer
• Dave Butterfield (born 1954), American football player
• Deborah Kay Butterfield (born 1949), U.S. artist
• Don Kiethly Butterfield (1923–2006), American tuba player
• G. K. Butterfield (born 1947), member of U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina
• Herbert Butterfield (1900–1979), historian, author of 'The Whig Interpretation of History'
• Isaac Butterfield, American officer in the revolutionary war who surrendered in the Battle of the Cedars to George Forster
• Jack Butterfield (ice hockey) (aka John Arlington Butterfield) (1919–2010), president of the American Hockey League for 28 years from 1966 to 1994
• Jack Butterfield (baseball) (1929–1979), college baseball coach at Maine and South Florida and New York Yankees executive
• Jack Butterfield (footballer) (1922–2001), English footballer
• Jacob Luke Butterfield (born 1990), English footballer
• James Butterfield (aka Jim Butterfield) (born 1950), rower for Bermuda at the 1972 Olympics
• James Austin Butterfield (1837–1891), American composer of "When You and I Were Young, Maggie"
• Phillip James Butterfield Jr. (aka Jim Butterfield) (1927–2002), an American football player and coach
• Jeff Butterfield (1929–2004), international rugby union player
• Jeremy Nicholas Butterfield (born 1954), philosopher
• Jim Butterfield (aka Frank James Butterfield) (1936–2007), Canadian computer programmer
• Jo Butterfield (aka Joanna Shuni Butterfield) (born 1979), British field athlete
• Jock Butterfield (aka John Rutherford Butterfield) (1932–2004), New Zealand rugby league footballer
• John Butterfield, Baron Butterfield (aka William John Hughes Butterfield) (1920–2000), British medical researcher and administrator
• John Warren Butterfield (1801–1869), founder of Butterfield Overland Mail
• Orville Orland Butterfield, The false lynching of Orlando Butterfield, The Tuskegee Institute 24 July 1883 in the book Lynching and Mob Violence in Ohio, 1772–1938
• Len Butterfield (aka Leonard Arthur Butterfield) (1913–1999), New Zealand cricketer
• Rosaria Champagne Butterfield (born 1962), religious writer
• Paul Vaughn Butterfield (1942–1987), American blues musician, singer and harmonica player
• Spencer Darren Butterfield (born 1992), American basketball player
• Stewart Butterfield (aka Daniel Stewart Butterfield / Dharma Jeremy Butterfield) (born 1973), co-founder of Flickr
• Taahira Naeema Butterfield (born 2000), Bermudian sprinter
• Thomas Butterfield (c. 1871–1943), Australian politician
• Thomas C. Butterfield, mayor of Cork, Ireland from 1916 to 1919
• Tony Butterfield (aka Anthony Butterfield) (born 1966), Australian rugby league footballer
• Tyler Barbour Butterfield (born 1983), Bermudian cyclist and triathlete
• William Butterfield (British architect) (1814–1900), British architect
• William Butterfield (American architect) (aka William M. Butterfield) (1860–1932), American architect
• William Butterfield (auctioneer), founder of auction house Butterfield & Butterfield