Reade (name)

Reade is a given name and surname of English origin. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Reade Baker (born 1947), Canadian racehorse trainer
• Reade Brower (born 1950s), American newspaper magnate
• Reade Seligmann, a defendant falsely accused of rape in the 2006 Duke lacrosse case
• Reade Stafford (1542–1605), English twice Member of Parliament

Surname

• Bob Reade (1932–2020), American former football player and coach
• Brian Reade (born 1957), British journalist
• Charles Reade (1814–1884), English novelist
• Charles Reade (town planner) (1880–1933), town planner
• Dolores Reade (1909–2011), American singer, entertainer, and philanthropist, wife of entertainer Bob Hope
• Edward Anderton Reade (1807–1886), British civil servant in India
• Edwin Godwin Reade (1812–1894), American politician
• George Reade (MP) (1687–1756), British Army officer and Member of Parliament
• Henry Reade (1840–1884), English first-class cricketer, clergyman, educator and headmaster
• Herbert Taylor Reade (1828–1897), Canadian military surgeon awarded the Victoria Cross
• John Edmund Reade (1800–1870), English poet and novelist
• John Reade (1837–1919), Irish-born Canadian journalist, essayist, and poet
• Joseph Reade (politician) (1694–1771), American vestryman and politician
• Joseph Bancroft Reade (1801–1870), English photographic pioneer
• Lawrence Reade (cricketer, born 1846) (1846–1910), New Zealand cricketer
• Lawrence Reade (cricketer, born 1930), New Zealand cricketer
• Linda R. Reade (born 1948), United States district judge
• Nicholas Reade (born 1946), former Anglican Bishop of Blackburn
• Paul Reade (1943–1997), English composer
• Pauline Reade, murder victim
• Peter Reade (born 1939), British former sailor
• Richard Reade (1511–1575), English-born judge
• Robert Reade (died 1415), English Catholic bishop
• Shanaze Reade (born 1988), British BMX rider
• Sophie Reade, game show contestant
• Tara Reade, former U.S. Senate aide
• Teddy Reade, American professional wrestler
• Sir Thomas Reade, 4th Baronet (c. 1684–1752), British courtier and longtime Member of Parliament
• Thomas Reade (British Army officer) (1782–1849), British Army officer and collector
• Thomas Mellard Reade (1832–1909), English geologist, architect, and civil engineer
• Walter Reade (1884–1952), American theater and drive-in chain founder
• William Reade (bishop) (c. 1315–1385), medieval Bishop of Chichester
• William Morris Reade (1787–1847), Irish Conservative politician and Member of Parliament
• William Winwood Reade (1838–1875), English historian, explorer, novelist, and philosopher

See also

• Read (surname), alternate spelling of the surname
• Rhead (surname)
• Reed (name)
• Reid (disambiguation)