Wolfenden is a surname of Old English origin meaning 'the valley of Wulfhelm' and derives from the location or township of Wolfenden near Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Lancashire. Other variants include Woolfenden.
Surname
Chantel Louise Wolfenden (born 1986), Australian paralympic swimmer
Christopher Wolfenden (born 1977), Canadian volleyball player
Hugh Herbert Wolfenden (1892–1968), Canadian actuary and statistician
Jacquie Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden) (born 1929), British naturalist
James Paine Wolfenden (1889–1949), United States congressman
Jeremy Wolfenden (1934–1965), British journalist and spy
Matthew Wolfenden (born 1987), British footballer
Matthew Wolfenden (born 1980), British actor
Richard Vance Wolfenden (born 1935), American biochemist
Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926), English physician and oceanographer
Guy Anthony Woolfenden (1937–2016), English composer and conductor
See also
John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (1906–1985), British educator and author of the Wolfenden Report (1957) Wolfenden (disambiguation)