Lister
- Alton Lister, retired American professional basketball player
- Anne Lister, (1791–1840), Yorkshire landowner
- Anthony Lister, an Australian born painter and installation artist
- Aynsley Lister, English blues guitarist
- Big Bill Lister, (1923–2009), Texas country & western singer, honkytonk singer
- Charles J. Lister, (1820–1912), a central figure in the Restoration Movement in 19th century Canada
- Dave Lister (fictional character), character in the BBC television sitcom Red Dwarf
- David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton
- David Lister (director), South African-born film director
- David Lister (origami historian)
- Dean Lister, an American mixed martial arts fighter and a former KOTC champion
- General Enrique Líster, Spanish Communist politician and military officer who took part in the Spanish Civil War and World War II
- Frank Lister, footballer, retired 1980
- Hugh Lister, (1901–1944), an Anglican priest, trade union organizer, and combatant officer in World War II
- Ensign Jeremy Lister, the youngest British officer at the Battle of Lexington and Concord
- Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, British surgeon and eponym of Listerine
- Joseph Jackson Lister (1786–1869), British amateur opticist and physicist; father of Joseph Lister
- Joseph Jackson Lister (naturalist) (1857–1927), British zoologist and plant collector
- Joseph Lister (VC), received VC for actions at the Third Battle of Ypres
- Martin Lister, (c. 1638 – 1712), English naturalist and physician
- Marquita Lister, American opera soprano
- Moira Lister, British actress and writer
- Nicholas Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Earl of Swinton
- Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
- Richard Percival Lister, (R. P. Lister) British metallurgist, author, poet and painter
- Samuel Lister, 1st Baron Masham
- Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton
- Thomas Henry Lister, (1800–1842) English novelist and Registrar General
- Tom Lister, Jr., American actor
- W. Lister Lister, (1859–1943), Australian artist
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