Foote is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

A

• Adam Foote (born 1971), Canadian ice hockey player
• Albert E. Foote (1846–1895) American mineralogist
• Alexander Foote (1905-1956) British born Soviet agent
• Andrew Hull Foote (1806–1863), American naval officer, a Union admiral
• Arthur Foote (1853–1937), American composer
• Arthur De Wint Foote (1849–1933), American engineer

B

• Barry Foote (born 1952), American baseball player

C

• Callan Foote (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
• Christopher Spencer Foote (1935–2005), American chemist

D

• Diane Foote (born 1954), New Zealand Olympic gymnast

E

• Edward Bliss Foote (1829–1906) American physicist
• Elisha Foote (1809–1883), American judge, inventor, and mathematician
• Elizabeth Erny Foote (born 1953), Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2010
• Eunice Newton Foote (1819–1888), American scientist, inventor and feminist

F

• Francis Onslow Barrington Foote (1850–1911), British army officer and musician

G

• George William Foote (1850–1915), British founder of the secularist journal The Freethinker
• Georgia May Foote (born 1991), English actress and model

H

• Henry Bowreman Foote (1904–1993), British recipient of the Victoria Cross, Director of Royal Armoured Corps
• Henry S. Foote (1804–1880), US Senator and Governor of Mississippi (1852–1854)
• Hezekiah William Foote (1813–1899), American Confederate veteran, attorney, planter and state politician from Mississippi
• Huger Lee Foote (1854–1915), American planter and state senator from Mississippi
• Horton Foote (1916–2009), American author and playwright

J

• James Foote (1829 - 1895), Australian politician
• Jeff Foote (born 1987), American professional basketball player
• John Clarke Foote (1822–1895), Australian politician
• John J. Foote (1816–1905), New York politician
• Reverend John Weir Foote (1904–1988), Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War
• Judy Foote (born 1952), Canadian politician and 14th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador

K

• Kenneth Foote (born 1948), American engineer

L

• Larry Foote (born 1980), American football player
• L.B. Foote (1873–1957) Canadian photographer
• Lucinda Foote (1770/71–?), American teen who attempted to enroll at Yale College, but was rejected for her gender

M

• Mary Foote (1872–1968), American painter; Carl Jung associate
• Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), American writer and illustrator

N

• Nathaniel Foote (1592–1644), founder of Wethersfield, Connecticut

P

• Percy Wright Foote (1879–1961), American naval officer

R

• Richard H. Foote (1918–2002), American entomologist
• Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912), British geologist who is considered the "Father of Indian Prehistory"

S

• Samuel Foote (1720–1777), Cornish dramatist and actor
• Selina Foote, (born 1985), New Zealand visual artist
• Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American historian

T

• Thomas Foote (1598–1687), English grocer and baronet
• Thomas M. Foote (1808–1858), American diplomat

W

• William Henry Foote (1794–1869), American Presbyterian minister in the Antebellum South