Foote is an English language surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Adam Foote (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
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Albert E. Foote (1846–1895) American mineralogist
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Alexander Foote (1905–1956) British-born Soviet agent
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Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), American naval officer, a Union admiral
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Arthur Foote (1853–1937), American composer
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Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933), American engineer
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Callan Foote (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
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Christopher Spencer Foote (1935–2005), American chemist
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Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) American physicist
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Elisha Foote (1809–1883), American judge, inventor, and mathematician
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Elizabeth Erny Foote (born 1953), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2010
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Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), American scientist, inventor and feminist
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Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850–1911), British army officer and musician
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George William Foote (1850–1915), English radical journalist and secularist
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Georgia May Foote (born 1991), English actress and model
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Henry Bowreman Foote (1904–1993), British recipient of the Victoria Cross, Director of the Royal Armoured Corps
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Henry S. Foote (1804–1880), US Senator and Governor of Mississippi (1852–1854)
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Hezekiah William Foote (1813–1899), American Confederate veteran, attorney, planter and state politician from Mississippi
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Huger Lee Foote (1854–1915), American planter and state senator from Mississippi
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Horton Foote (1916–2009), American author and playwright
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James Foote (1829 - 1895), Australian politician
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Jeff Foote (born 1987), American professional basketball player
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John Clarke Foote (1822–1895), Australian politician
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John J. Foote (1816–1905), New York politician
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Reverend John Weir Foote (1904–1988), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
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Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician and 14th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador
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Larry Foote (born 1980), American football player
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L.B. Foote (1873–1957) Canadian photographer
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Lucinda Foote (1770/71–?), American teen who attempted to enroll at Yale College, but was rejected for her gender
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Mary Foote (1872–1968), American painter; Carl Jung associate
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Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), American writer and illustrator
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Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), American naval officer
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Richard H. Foote (1918–2002), American entomologist
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Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912), British geologist who is considered the "Father of Indian Prehistory"
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Thomas Foote (1598–1687), English grocer and baronet
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Thomas M. Foote (1808–1858), American diplomat
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William Henry Foote (1794–1869), American Presbyterian minister in the Antebellum South
