Donisthorpe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951), British myrmecologist and coleopterist Richard Donisthorpe, (fl. 1797) (usually Richard Donisthorp), English clockmaker Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847–1914), English individualist, anarchist and inventor Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong, English writer G. Sheila Donisthorpe (1898-1946), English novelist and playwright