Ashby (surname)

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

• Aaron Ashby (born 1998), American baseball player
• Alan Ashby (born 1951), American baseball player
• Alexander Essebiensis (Alexander of Ashby) (c. 1220), English theologian and poet
• Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987), Australian botanical artist and plant collector
• Andy Ashby (born 1967), American baseball player
• Carl Ashby (1914–2004), American artist
• Christopher C. Ashby (born 1946), American ambassador to Uruguay, 1997–2001
• David Ashby (born 1940), British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1997
• David Ashby (cricketer) (1852–1934), New Zealand cricketer
• Debee Ashby (born 1967), British adult model
• Dorothy Ashby (1932–1986), American jazz harpist and composer
• Earl Ashby (born 1921), Cuban baseball player
• Edwin Ashby (1861–1941), Australian malacologist and ornithologist
• Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby (1904–1992), British botanist and educator
• Gary Ashby (born 1955), American baseball coach
• George Ashby (martyr) (died 1537), martyred English monk
• Godfrey Ashby (1930–2023), British Anglican bishop
• Hal Ashby (1929–1988), American film director
• Harry Ashby (golfer) (1946–2010), English golfer
• Irving Ashby (1920–1987), American jazz guitarist
• Jeffrey Ashby (born 1954), American naval aviator and astronaut
• John Ashby (militiaman) (18th century), colonel in the Virginia Militia
• John Ashby (Royal Navy officer) (1646–1693), English admiral during the War of the League of Augsburg
• Joseph Ashby-Sterry (c. 1837–1917), English poet and novelist
• Julian Ashby (born 2002), American football player
• Linden Ashby (born 1960), American actor
• Madeline Ashby (born 1983), American-Canadian science fiction writer
• Margery Corbett Ashby (1882–1981), British feminist and internationalist
• Michael Ashby (1914–2004), British neurologist
• Michael F. Ashby (born 1935), British metallurgist
• Peter Ashby, British musician and composer
• Ray Ashby, British rugby player
• Richard Ashby (born 1972), British poker player
• Sydney Francis Ashby (1874–1954), British mycologist and phytopathologist
• Sylvia Rose Ashby (1908–1978), British-born Australian market researcher
• Thomas Ashby (disambiguation)
• Turner Ashby (1828–1862), Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War
• William Ross Ashby (1903–1972), English psychiatrist and founder of the English school of cybernetics