Wake (surname)

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

• Brian Wake (born 1982), English footballer
• Bronwyn Wake, Australian scientist
• Cameron Wake (born 1982), American football linebacker
• David B. Wake (1936–2021), American biologist and herpetologist
• Harry Wake (1901–1981), English footballer
• Hereward the Wake (c. 1035 — c. 1072), 11th-century Anglo-Saxon leader
• Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet (1876-1963), British Army general
• Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet (1916–2017), British Army officer and countryman
• Isaac Wake (1580–1632), English diplomat and political commentator
• Jenny Wake, New Zealand actor and theatre director
• John Wake (born 1953), English cricketer
• Jehanne Wake (born 1966), British biographer
• Joan Wake (1884–1974), British historian
• Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell (1297–1349), wife of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent
• Marvalee Wake (born 1939), American biologist
• Melissa Anne Wake, New Zealand paediatric academic
• Nancy Wake (1912–2011), New Zealand born Australian who served as a British spy during World War II
• Neil Vincent Wake (born 1948), United States federal judge
• Ric Wake, record producer
• Robert A. Wake, 1966 champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
• Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell (1297–1349), English baron
• Thomas Wake (disambiguation)
• William Wake (1657–1737), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Sir William Wake, 8th Baronet (1742–1785), British politician
• William Wake (cricketer) (1852–1896), English amateur first-class cricketer
• William Wake (governor), governor of Bombay