Chilton (surname)

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

• Alex Chilton (1950–2010), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, the lead singer of the Box Tops
• Allenby Chilton (1918–1996), English football player
• Bart Chilton (1960–2019), commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• Charles Chilton (1917–2013), BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer
• Charles Chilton (zoologist) (1860–1929), New Zealand
• Chris Chilton (1943–2021), British footballer
• David Chilton (1951–1997), pastor and Christian Reconstructionist
• David Barr Chilton, Canadian financial author
• Emelie C. S. Chilton (1838-1864), American poet, magazine editor
• Frederick Oliver Chilton Australian brigadier
• Glen Chilton, Canadian-Australian professor, author, ornithologist and behavioural ecologist
• Horace Chilton (1853–1932), printer, lawyer, and Democratic US Senator from Texas
• James Chilton (c. 1556 – 1620), Mayflower settler
• John Chilton (1932–2016), British jazz trumpeter and writer
• Kevin Patrick "Chily" Chilton (born 1954), 4-star general in the USAF and NASA astronaut
• Mark Chilton (born 1976), British cricketer
• Mark H. Chilton (born 1970), mayor of Carrboro, North Carolina
• Mary Chilton (1607 – c. 1679), passenger on the Mayflower
• Mary-Dell Chilton (born 1939), one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology
• Maurice Chilton (1898–1956) British Army officer
• Max Chilton (born 1991) British racing driver competing in Formula 1
• Robert H. Chilton (1815–1879), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; chief of staff for Robert E. Lee
• Selina Chilton (born 1981), English actress
• Shirley Chilton (1923–2013), American businesswoman and politician
• Thomas Chilton (1798–1854), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Baptist clergyman, ghostwriter of David Crockett's autobiography
• Thomas H. Chilton (1899–1972), chemical engineer and professor
• Tom Chilton (born 1985), British auto racing driver
• Tom Chilton (game developer) for the World of Warcraft game
• William Chilton (printer) (1815–1855), British printer, socialist, atheist, and evolutionist
• William E. Chilton (1856–1939), United States Senator from West Virginia
• William Parish Chilton (1810–1871), lawyer, jurist, and politician serving Alabama and later the Confederate States of America