Taft (surname)
Taft is a surname.
Notable people with the surname include:
- William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States
- The Taft family, a political dynasty that includes the above-named president:
- * The Tafts of Mendon and Uxbridge, Massachusetts:
- ** Robert Taft Sr., immigrant, patriarch of the Taft family, and ancestor of President Taft
- ** Robert Taft, 2nd, colonial-born pioneer son of Robert Taft Sr., he founded the Tafts of Ohio
- ** Josiah Taft, grandson of Robert Sr and husband of Lydia Chapin Taft
- ** Lydia Chapin Taft, widow of Josiah and the first woman to vote in colonial America
- ** Peter Rawson Taft, descendant of Robert Sr, grandfather of President Taft, and a Vermont legislator
- * The Tafts of Ohio:
- **Alphonso Taft, Attorney General and Secretary of War of the United States, co-founder of Skull and Bones, descendant of Robert Sr, and father of President Taft
- **Louise Taft, second wife of Alphonse and mother of the president
- **Henry Waters Taft, American lawyer and brother of the president
- **Charles Phelps Taft, American lawyer and brother of the president
- **Horace Dutton Taft, American educator and brother of the president
- **Robert A. Taft, United States senator from Ohio, son of the president
- **Robert Taft Jr., Robert A. Taft's son, 1960s U.S. representative and 1970s U.S. Senator from Ohio
- **Bob Taft, Robert A. Taft's grandson, a governor of Ohio
- Bill Taft, American rock musician
- Catherine Taft, American art critic
- Earl Taft, American mathematician, husband of Hessy
- George Taft, English footballer
- Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish child model for Nazi propaganda, wife of Earl
- Lorado Taft, American sculptor
- Kevin Taft, Canadian politician
- Robert F. Taft, a Jesuit priest
- Jerry Taft, American meteorologist
