Garnett (surname)

Garnett is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• A.Y.P. Garnett (1820–1888), American physician
• Alvester Garnett (born 1970), American jazz drummer
• Amaryllis Garnett (1943–1973), English actress
• Amy Garnett (born 1976), English rugby union player
• Angelica Garnett (1918–2012), English writer and painter
• Arthur William Garnett (1829–1861), English military and civil engineer
• Bill Garnett (born 1960), American basketball player
• Blind Leroy Garnett (1897–1933), American boogie-woogie and ragtime pianist and songwriter
• Bret Garnett (born 1967), American tennis player
• Carlos Garnett (1938–2023), Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist
• Christopher Garnett, British railway executive
• Constance Garnett (1861–1946), English translator
• Dave Garnett (born 1970), American football player
• David Garnett (1892–1981), British writer and publisher
• David S. Garnett (born 1947), British science fiction writer
• Edward Garnett (1868–1937), British writer, critic and editor
• Edward Garnett (cricketer) (born 1965), English cricketer
• Eve Garnett (1900–1991), English author and illustrator
• Gale Garnett (born 1942), New Zealand-born Canadian folk singer
• Gwynn Garnett (1909-1995), Director of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service
• Harold Garnett (1879–1917), English-born cricketer who played for Lancashire and Argentina
• Harry Garnett (1851–1928), British rugby player
• Henrietta Garnett (1945–2019), English writer
• Henry Garnet or Garnett (1555–1606), English Jesuit priest, executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot
• Sir Ian Garnett (born 1944), Royal Navy admiral
• James Clerk Maxwell Garnett (1880–1958), English educationist, barrister, and peace campaigner
• James M. Garnett (1770–1843), American politician from Virginia
• Jeremiah Garnett (1793–1870), English journalist
• John Garnett (bishop) (1707/8–1782), English priest, bishop of Clogher, Ireland
• John B. Garnett (born 1940), American mathematician
• Joy Garnett (born 1965), American artist
• Kevin Garnett (born 1976), American basketball player
• Lucy Garnett (1849–1934), British folklorist and traveller
• Marlon Garnett (born 1975), Belizean basketball player
• Merrill Garnett (born 1931), American biochemist and cancer researcher
• Michael Garnett (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
• Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett (1821–1864), American politician from Virginia
• Nick Garnett (born 1964), English journalist and broadcaster
• Nicole Stelle Garnett (born 1970), American law professor
• Richard Garnett (philologist) (1789–1850), English philologist, author and librarian at the British Museum
• Richard Garnett (writer) (1835–1906), English scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
• Richard B. Garnett (1817–1863), Confederate general in American Civil War
• Richard W. Garnett (born 1968), American legal scholar
• Robert S. Garnett (congressman) (1789–1840), American politician and lawyer
• Robert S. Garnett (1819–1861), Confederate officer in American Civil War
• Ruby Nash Garnett (born 1939), American singer
• Sarah Garnett, New Zealand hockey umpire
• Shaun Garnett (born 1969), English football player
• Tay Garnett (1894–1977), American film director
• Thomas Garnet or Garnett (1575–1608), English Jesuit priest and martyr, declared a saint in 1970
• Thomas Garnett (disambiguation), multiple people
• Tommy Garnett (1915–2006), Australian headmaster, ornithologist and horticulturist
• Tony Garnett (1936–2020), British film producer
• William Garnett (civil servant) (1793–1873), British inspector-general of stamps and taxes who took a leading part in the introduction of income tax in Britain
• William Garnett (politician) (1818–1873), British politician
• William Garnett (photographer) (1916–2006), American photographer
• Winfield Garnett (born 1976), American football player

Fictional characters:

• Alf Garnett, character in 20th century BBC television sitcoms

See also

• Garnet (name)