Mitchell (surname)

Mitchell or Mitchel is an

As of 2014, 65.5% of all bearers of the surname Mitchell were residents of the United States (frequency 1:759), 12.0% of England (1:639), 5.6% of Australia (1:581), 5.1% of Canada (1:987), 2.8% of Scotland (1:261), 2.4% of South Africa (1:3,154) and 1.3% of Jamaica (1:309).

In Scotland, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:261) in the following council areas:^[4]

In the United States, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:759) in the following states:

People

A–E

• Akil Mitchell, American basketball player
• Alan Mitchell (botanist) (1922–1995), British dendrologist and forester
• Alexander Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Alvin Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Andrea Mitchell, American TV journalist
• Andrew Mitchell (born 1956), British politician
• Arthur Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Austin Mitchell (1934–2021), British politician
• Barbara Mitchell (1929–1977), British actress
• Belle Mitchell (1889–1979), American actress
• Beth Mitchell (1972–1998), American competitive shag dancer
• Betty Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Beverley Mitchell (born 1981), American actress
• Billy Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Bo Levi Mitchell (born 1990), American player of Canadian football
• Bobby Mitchell (1935–2020), American football player
• Brian David Mitchell
  , Kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart
• Broadus Mitchell (1892–1988), American historian
• Bruce Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Bryant Mitchell (born 1992), American football player
• Cal Mitchell (born 1999), American baseball player
• Cameron Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Casey Mitchell (basketball) (born 1988), American basketball player
• Charlene Mitchell (1930–2022), American civil rights activist
• Charles Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Charlotte Mitchell, British actress
• Christopher Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Chuck Mitchell (1927–1992), American actor
• Cleta Mitchell (born 1950), American lawyer, politician and activist
• Colin Mitchell (cricketer) (1929–2007), English cricketer
• Colin Campbell Mitchell
  (1925–1996), British soldier and politician
• Collin Mitchell (born 1969), Canadian curler
• Coulson Norman Mitchell, Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Dale Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• DaMarcus Mitchell (born 1998), American football player
• Daniel Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Danyel Mitchell (born 1972), American discus thrower and shot putter
• David Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Demetri Mitchell (born 1997), English footballer
• Denis Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Dennis Mitchell (born 1966), American athlete
• Sir
  Dennis Mitchell (pilot)
  (1918–2001), British air force pilot
• Dervilla Mitchell, Irish engineer
• Diana Mitchell (1932–2016), Zimbabwean historian and political activist
• Dickon Mitchell (born 1978), Grenadian Politician
• Dillon Mitchell (born 1998), American football player
• Donovan Mitchell (born 1996) American Basketball Player
• Drew Mitchell (born 1984), Australian rugby player
• E. A. Mitchell (1910–1979), American politician
• E. Belle Mitchell (1848–1942), American educator and activist
• E. Coppée Mitchell (1836–1886), American professor
• E. Roger Mitchell, (born 1971), American actor
• Eddy Mitchell (born 1942), French singer and actor born Claude Moine
• Edgar Mitchell (1930–2016), American astronaut
• Edith Mitchell (born 1948), American Brigadier general and oncologist
• Edward Mitchell, multiple people
• Elijah Mitchell (born 1998), American football player
• Elisha Mitchell (1793–1857), American professor
• Elizabeth Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Eugene Mitchell (1866–1944), American lawyer and politician
• Ewan Mitchell (born 1997), English actor
• Ewing Mitchell (1910–1988), American actor

F–L

• Frederick Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Fondren Mitchell (1921–1952), American football player
• Garrett Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Gary Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Gay Mitchell Irish politician and member of the European Parliament for the Dublin constituency
• Geneva Mitchell (1908–1949), American actress
• George Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Glenn Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Guy Mitchell (1927–1999), American singer and actor
• Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956), English suffragette and socialist
• Harold C. Mitchell (1872–1938), American lawyer and politician
• H. Lane Mitchell, American politician
• Henry Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Howard Hawks Mitchell mathematician
• Ian Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Isaac Mitchell (writer) (1759–1812), New York newspaper publisher and author
• Isaac B. Mitchell (1888–1977), New York state senator
• Jackson Mitchell (born 2001), American football player
• Jacqui Mitchell (born 1936), American bridge player
• James Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jamie Mitchell (born 1985), professional boxer
• Jane E. Mitchell (1921–2004), African American nurse
• Jemma Mitchell
  (born 1984), British–Australian convicted murderer
• Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), American painter
• John Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Joni Mitchell (born 1943), Canadian musician and painter
• Joseph Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Julian Mitchell (born 1935), English screenwriter and occasional novelist
• Juliet Mitchell (born 1940), British psychoanalyst
• Katie Mitchell (born 1964), English theatre director
• Keaton Mitchell (born 2002), American football player
• Keith Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kel Mitchell (born 1978), American actor
• Kelsey Mitchell (basketball) (born 1995), American basketball player
• Kenneth Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kevin Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Kim Mitchell (born 1952), Canadian guitarist, solo recording artist and former lead singer for the band Max Webster
• Kris Mitchell (born 2000), American football player
• Lauren Mitchell (born 1992), Australian gymnast, two time Olympic gymnast
• Laurie Mitchell (1928–2018), American actress
• Leilani Mitchell (born 1985), American basketball player
• Leona Mitchell (born 1949), American operatic soprano
• Leslie George Mitchell, British historian
• Leslie R. Mitchell (1923–2014), British Scouter and radio amateur
• Letila Mitchell, Rotuman performing artist from Fiji
• Lezmond Charles Mitchell (1981–2020), American criminal
• Loften Mitchell (1919–2001), American playwright
• Lois Mitchell (born 1939), Canadian politician
• Lucy Miller Mitchell (1899–2002), educator and activist
• Lynette Mitchell, Professor in Greek History and Politics, University of Exeter

M–R

• MacNeil Mitchell (1904–1996), New York politician
• Maia Mitchell (born 1993), Australian actress
• Mairin Mitchell (1895–1986), Anglo-Irish author
• Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), American author (Gone with the Wind)
• Margaret Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Margaretta Mitchell (born 1935), American photographer and writer
• Maria Mitchell (1818–1889), American astronomer
• Marion Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Mark Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Martha Mitchell (director), American television director
• Martha Beall Mitchell
  , wife of American politician John Mitchell
• Martha Reed Mitchell (1818–1902), American philanthropist and socialite
• Mason Mitchell (born 1994) American stock car racing driver
• Matthew Mitchell (basketball) (born 1970), American basketball coach
• Max Mitchell (born 1999), American football player
• Maybelle Stephens Mitchell (1872–1919), American suffragist
• Michele Mitchell (diver) (born 1962), American diver
• Michele Mitchell (journalist), American filmmaker, journalist and author
• Mike Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Mitch Mitchell (1946–2008), drummer of the Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Myron Mitchell (born 1998), American football player
• Nathan Mitchell (born 1988), Canadian actor
• Noble L. Mitchell (1854–1932), American politician
• Norman Mitchell (1918–2001), British actor
• Norman Mitchell (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1950s
• Oliver Mitchell
  , U.S marine killed in action during World War II
• Ormsby M. Mitchel (1810–1862), American Civil War general
• Osirus Mitchell (born 1998), American football player
• Patrick Mitchell (football)
  , British Virgin Islands football manager
• Patrick Mitchell (priest) (1930–2020), English Anglican priest
• Penelope Mitchell, Australian actress
• Peter Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Priscilla Mitchell (1941–2014), American country music singer
• R. Clayton Mitchell Jr. (1936–2019), American politician
• Radha Mitchell, Australian film actress
• R. J. Mitchell (Reginald Joseph Mitchell, 1895–1937), British aeronautical engineer and designer of the Supermarine Spitfire
• Rhea Mitchell, American film actress
• Richard Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Robert Byington Mitchell, American Civil War general
• Robin E. Mitchell (born 1946), Fijian sports official and IOC member
• Robert J. Mitchell
  , Distinguished geology Professor at Western Washington University
• Rosamond Joscelyne Mitchell (1902–1963), English author, historian, and archivist
• Rosemary Mitchell (1967–2021), English academic Victorianist

S–Z

• Sam Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Samuel Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Saundra Mitchell (born 1973), American novelist
• Scott Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Seanna Mitchell (born 1988), Canadian freestyle swimmer
• Shannon Mitchell (born 1972), American football player
• Sharon Mitchell (born 1956), porn actress and director of the Adult Industry Medical Health Care Foundation
• Shay Mitchell (born 1987), Canadian actress and model
• Silas Weir Mitchell (actor) (born 1969), American actor
• Silas Weir Mitchell (physician) (1829–1914), American surgeon
• Stanley Mitchell (1932–2011), British translator, academic, and author
• Stanley Robert Mitchell (1881–1963), Australian metallurgist and ethnologist
• Steven Mitchell (American football) (born 1994), American football player
• Stuart Mitchell (1965–2018), Scottish pianist and composer
• Stuart Mitchell (American football) (born 1964), American football player
• Sydney Mitchell (1856–1930), Scottish architect
• Sydney B. Mitchell (1878–1951), Canadian librarian and horticulturist
• Taylor Mitchell (1990–2009), Canadian singer
• Terence Frederick Mitchell (1919–2007), British linguist
• Thomas Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Tre Mitchell (born 2000), American basketball player
• Ty Mitchell (born 1993), American writer and former actor
• Tyrone Mitchell (1955–1984), American school shooter
• Victor Mitchell (born 1965), American businessman and politician
• W. O. Mitchell (William Ormond Mitchell, 1914–1998), Canadian writer
• Warren Mitchell (1926–2015), English actor
• Warren Mitchell (basketball), American college basketball coach
• Wendy Mitchell (1932–1999), British nurse, midwife, politician and public servant
• Wesley Clair Mitchell (1874–1948), American economist
• William Mitchell (disambiguation), multiple people
• Willy Mitchell (born 1953), Canadian First Nations musician
• Zack Mitchell (born 1993), Canadian ice hockey player

Fictional characters

• Arthur Mitchell (character)
  a.k.a. the Trinity Killer, a serial killer in the fourth season of the TV series Dexter
• Beca Mitchell in
  Pitch Perfect
• Ben Mitchell (film character)
  , from the Australian horror film Wolf Creek
• President Bill Mitchell in the film Dave
• Cameron Mitchell (Stargate) of Stargate SG-1
• Dana Mitchell
  , the Pink Ranger in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
• Dennis the Menace (U.S.)
  , cartoon character
• Gary Mitchell (Star Trek)
  , villain in the original Star Trek series
• Hank and Jacob Mitchell, brothers from the novel and film "A Simple Plan"
• Harold Mitchell, Blanche's would-be suitor in the play
  A Streetcar Named Desire
  and its various adaptations
• Henry Mitchell, Paige's husband in Charmed
• Jack Mitchell (character), appears in numerous sketch stories by Henry Lawson
• Jack Mitchell, protagonist in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
• John Mitchell (Being Human), fictional vampire from the TV series Being Human
• The Mitchells family in The Mitchells vs. the Machines
• Nanea Mitchell, American Girl character from World War II Hawaii
• Lt. Pete Mitchell ("Maverick"), in Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick
• Ryan Mitchell (Power Rangers)
  , the Titanium Ranger in Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue
• Capt. Scott Mitchell, the protagonist and player character in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon series

EastEnders

The Mitchell family has played a large part in the British soap opera EastEnders since their introduction in 1990. Characters credited under the surname are as follows:

See also

• Ó Maoilmhichil, Irish clan name which evolved into the surname Mitchell and the surname Mulvihill
• Michell, a variant
• Mittell, another surname
• Mitchell (given name)

References

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Mitchell.
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