Ashby (surname)
Ashby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Ashby, American baseball player
- Alexander Essebiensis , English theologian and poet
- Alison Marjorie Ashby, Australian botanical artist and plant collector
- Andy Ashby, American baseball player
- Carl Ashby, American abstract expressionist artist
- Christopher C. Ashby, American ambassador to Uruguay, 1997 to 2001
- David Ashby, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983–1997
- David Ashby , New Zealand cricketer
- Debee Ashby, British adult model
- Dorothy Ashby, African American jazz harpist and composer
- Earl Ashby, Cuban baseball player
- Edwin Ashby, Australian malacologist and ornithologist
- Eric Ashby, Baron Ashby, British botanist and educator
- Gary Ashby, American college baseball coach
- George Ashby , martyred English monk
- Hal Ashby, American film director
- Harry Ashby , English professional golf player
- Irving Ashby, American jazz guitarist
- Jeffrey Ashby, American naval aviator and astronaut
- John Ashby , English admiral during the War of the League of Augsburg
- John Ashby , colonel in the Virginia Militia
- Joseph Ashby-Sterry, English poet and novelist
- Linden Ashby, American actor
- Madeline Ashby, American-Canadian science fiction writer
- Margery Corbett Ashby, British feminist and internationalist
- Michael Ashby, British neurologist
- Michael F. Ashby, British metallurgist
- Peter Ashby, British musician and composer
- Ray Ashby, British rugby league footballer
- Richard Ashby, British poker player
- Thomas Ashby, British archaeologist and architectural historian of ancient Rome
- Turner Ashby, Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War
- William Ross Ashby, English psychiatrist and founder of the English school of cybernetics
