Ridding is a surname, and may refer to:

Charles Ridding (1825–1905), English cricketer C. M. Ridding (1862–1941), English scholar of Sanskrit and Pali Ernest Ridding 1927–2001), Australian eccentric Bill Ridding (1911–1981), English football player and manager George Ridding (1828–1904), English headmaster and bishop Lady Laura Ridding (1849–1939), British biographer, suffragist and philanthropist William Ridding (cricketer) (1830–1900), English cricketer

See also Riddings, village in Derbyshire, England.