Cavendish (surname)

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

• Ada Cavendish (1839–1895), British actress
• Anthony Cavendish (1927–2013), British intelligence officer
• Camilla Cavendish (born 1968), British journalist
• Lord Charles Cavendish (1704–1783), British nobleman, Whig politician and scientist
• Charles Cavendish (1793–1863), British Liberal politician
• George Cavendish (writer) (c. 1494 – 1562) English writer and biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
• Henry Cavendish (1731–1810), British physicist, discoverer of hydrogen
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1623–1673), English aristocrat, writer, and philosopher
• Mark Cavendish (born 1985), Manx cyclist
• Michael Cavendish (born c. 1565), English composer
• Michael Robert Cavendish (born c. 1972), legal ethics writer and theorist
• Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire (born 1944), British Peer and owner of Pratt's Club
• Lord Richard Cavendish (1752–1781), British MP
• Lord Richard Cavendish (1871–1946), British MP, aristocrat, author, magistrate
• Lucy Cavendish (1841–1925), British pioneer of women's education
• Richard Cavendish (occult writer) (born 1930), British writer on topics dealing with the occult
• Sid Cavendish (1876–1954), English footballer with Southampton and Clapton Orient
• William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland (1738–1809), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Thomas Cavendish (1564–1593), English Admiral

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