Mead (surname)
Mead is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert E. Mead, fifth Governor of U.S. state of Washington
- Andrea Mead Lawrence, American alpine skier and Olympic gold medalist
- Andrew Mead, American justice
- Beth Mead, English association footballer
- Carver Mead, U.S. computer scientist
- Cato Mead, black American Revolutionary War veteran
- Charlie Mead, Canadian baseball player
- Chip Mead, American race car driver from Dayton, Ohio
- Chris Mead, ornithologist
- Courtland Mead, U.S. actor, best known for playing Danny Torrance in Stephen King's The Shining
- Cowles Mead, U.S. Representative from Georgia
- Cyril Mead, birth name of Syd Little, British comedian
- Daniel W. Mead, American engineer
- Darren Mead, Australian rules footballer
- David Mead, several people
- Dorothy Mead, English painter
- Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator and President of Mount Holyoke College
- Elwood Mead, U.S. politician and engineer, head of the Bureau of Reclamation
- George Herbert Mead, philosopher, sociologist
- G. R. S. Mead, English author, editor, and esotericist
- Hassan Mead, cross country and track and field athlete
- James M. Mead, U.S. Senator from New York
- John A. Mead, U.S. politician from Vermont
- Jon Mead, Canadian curler
- Larkin Goldsmith Mead, American sculptor
- Lawrence Mead, American political scientist
- Lee Mead, British musical theatre actor
- Les Mead, Australian rugby league footballer
- Lynda Lee Mead, 1960 winner of the Miss America pageant
- Marcia Mead, architect
- Margaret Mead, anthropologist
- Mary Mead, rancher and Wyoming politician
- Matt Mead, Governor of Wyoming
- Matthew Mead
- Michael Mead, English professional ballroom dance champion and choreographer
- Mike Mead, American drummer
- Phil Mead, English cricketer
- Richard Mead, English physician
- Richelle Mead, American fantasy author
- Shepherd Mead, American author
- Sidney Moko Mead, New Zealand Māori anthropologist, historian, artist, teacher and writer
- Silas Mead, Baptist minister in Adelaide, South Australia
- Sister Janet Mead, Australian Catholic nun and musician
- Slade Mead, former U.S. Senator for Arizona
- Steven Mead, British euphonium solo player
- Stu Mead, American painter
- Syd Mead, American industrial designer, worked on films such as Blade Runner
- Taylor Mead, American writer and actor
- Theodore Luqueer Mead, American naturalist
- Tim Mead, English countertenor
- Tom Mead, Australian politician
- Walter Mead , English Essex cricketer
- Walter Russell Mead, American foreign thinker
- William Rutherford Mead, structural engineer, co-founder of the architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White
