Blakesley is a surname and may refer: Jacob S. D. Blakesley, American translator Jim Blakesley (1896–1965), American minor league baseball player Joseph Blakesley (1808–1885), English Anglican clergyman and author Nora David, Baroness David (née Blakesley) (1913–2009), English Labour Party politician Rosalind Polly Blakesley, British author and art historian