Bolitho (surname)

Bolitho is a surname of Cornish origin, derived from Bolitho in west Cornwall.[1] Notable people with the surname include:

• Bob Bolitho (born 1952), Canadian soccer player
• Edward Bolitho (born 1955), British Army officer
• Edward Hoblyn Warren Bolitho (1882–1969), Cornish landowner and politician
• Harold Bolitho (1939–2010), Australian academic and expert on Japan at Harvard University
• Hector Bolitho (1897–1974), New Zealand author and novelist
• John Bolitho (1930–2005), bard of the Cornish Gorsedd
• Thomas Bedford Bolitho (1835–1915), Liberal Unionist MP for St Ives, 1887 to 1900
• Thomas Robins Bolitho (1840–1925), English banker
• William Bolitho (cricketer) (1862–1919), English cricketer, banker and British Army officer
• William Bolitho Ryall (1891–1930), South African writer and biographer, who published under the name of William Bolitho
• Bolitho family, Cornish family

Bolitho is also a fictional surname:

• Richard Bolitho and Adam Bolitho, Royal Navy officers created by British author Alexander Kent