Church is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Albert T. Church (born 1947), Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy
- Alonzo Church (1903–1995), logician, famous for the Church-Turing thesis and lambda calculus
- Captain Benjamin Church (1639–1718), colonial officer during King Philip's War
- Benjamin Church (1734–1776), first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
- Benjamin F. Church (1807–1887), American pioneer and builder of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Bill Church, American musician
- Brad Church (born 1976), Canadian ice hockey player
- Charlotte Church (born 1986), Welsh soprano singer and talk show host
- Doug Church, video-game designer
- Ellen Church (1904–1965), first airline stewardess
- Eric Church (born 1977), American country music singer
- Forrester Church (born 1948), American minister, son of Senator Frank Church
- Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), American writer (famous for the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)
- Frank Church (1924–1984), four-term U.S. Senator from Idaho.
- Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), landscape painter
- Frederic A. Church, American engineer and early roller coaster designer.
- Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924), American artist.
- George W. Church, Sr. (1903–1956), founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants
- James E. Church (1869–1959), pioneered the techniques used to measure snow and forecast seasonal water supplies
- John A. Church, an expert on sea-level and its changes
- Johnny Church, a well-known spoken word artist
- Judith Church (born 1953), a politician in the United Kingdom
- Louis K. Church (1845–1898), New York Supreme Court justice
- Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), American writer and civil-rights activist
- Mike Church (born 1962), a Southern United States radio commentator
- Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), a British military officer and general in the Greek army
- Richard William Church (1825–1890), an English divine, nephew of the general
- Richard Church (poet) (1893–1972), an English poet and man of letters
- Robert Reed Church (1839–1912), the first African-American millionaire
- Ryan Church (born 1978), an American baseball player
- Simon Church (born 1988), Welsh international footballer
- Thomas Dolliver Church (1902–1978), American landscape architect
- Thomas Haden Church (born 1961), American actor in television and film
- Thomas Langton Church (1870–1950), Canadian politician
- Walter G. Church, Sr., member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- William Church (c. 1778–1863), American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822
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Famous quotes containing the word church:
“In church your grandsire cut his throat;
To do the job too long he tarried:
He should have had my hearty vote
To cut his throat before he married.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)