Wolfenden is a surname of Old English origin meaning 'the valley of Wulfhelm' and derives from the location or township of Wolfenden near Newchurch-in-Rossendale, Lancashire. Other variants include Woolfenden and Woffenden.
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Chantel Louise Wolfenden (born 1986), Australian paralympic swimmer Christopher Wolfenden (born 1977), Canadian volleyball player Hugh Herbert Wolfenden (1892–1968), Canadian actuary and statistician Jacquie Sonia Durrell (née Wolfenden) (born 1929), British naturalist James Paine Wolfenden (1889–1949), United States congressman John Frederick Wolfenden (1906-1985), British educationalist and chair of the Wolfenden Report Jeremy Wolfenden (1934–1965), British journalist and spy Matthew Wolfenden (born 1987), British footballer Matthew Wolfenden (born 1980), British actor Richard Vance Wolfenden (born 1935), American biochemist Richard Norris Wolfenden (1854–1926), English physician and oceanographer Guy Anthony Woolfenden (1937–2016), English composer and conductor
See also John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden (1906–1985), British educator and author of the Wolfenden Report (1957) Wolfenden (disambiguation) Woolfenden
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