Cautley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Baron Cautley of Lindfield in the County of Sussex, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; Henry Cautley, 1st Baron Cautley (1863–1946), British barrister, judge and Conservative politician; Marjorie Sewell Cautley (1891–1954), American landscape architect; Proby Cautley KCB (1802–1871), English engineer and palaeontologist; Thomas Cautley Newby (1797–1882), English publisher and printer based in London; William Cautley (died 1864), New Zealand politician;

See also Cautley Spout, England's highest waterfall above ground