People
- Alfred P. Southwick, a dentist from Buffalo, New York who is credited with inventing the first electric chair as a method of execution.
- Lawrence Southwick and his wife Cassandra Burnell Southwick, early immigrants to the American colonies and devout Quakers who were persecuted for their beliefs in Salem, Massachusetts
- Leslie H. Southwick, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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