Look up pinfold in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Penfold, sometimes spelt Pinfold, is an English-language surname. The name Penfold can be found in written records dating back to the reign of Alfred the Great. In Middle English, a pinfold was a pound or an open enclosure for stray (or improperly supervised) domesticated animals.^{[ citation needed ]}

Notable people with the surname Penfold include:

• Adrian Penfold (born 1952), British planning expert
• Alexander Penfold (1901–1982), English cricketer
• Alison Penfold, Australian politician
• Bernard Penfold (1916–2015), British Army officer
• Christopher Penfold, British writer and producer in radio and television
• Christopher Rawson Penfold (1811–1870), Viticulturist and entrepreneur of South Australia's wine industry
• David Penfold (born 1964), field hockey player from New Zealand
• Frank C. Penfold (1849–1921), American artist and teacher
• George Saxby Penfold DD (1770–1846), a Church of England clergyman
• Hilary Penfold (born 1953), Australian parliamentary counsel and judge
• John Penfold (1828–1909), British surveyor and architect
• John Penfold (priest) (1864–1922), British Anglican priest
• Liz Penfold (born 1947), Australian politician
• Mary Penfold (1820–1895), Viticulturist and entrepreneur of South Australia's wine industry
• Mark Penfold (born 1956), English professional footballer
• Merimeri Penfold (1920–2014), New Zealand Māori educator
• Molly Penfold (born 2001), New Zealand cricketer
• Morgan Penfold (born 1998), English footballer
• Paula Penfold, New Zealand investigative journalist
• Peter Penfold (1944–2023), British diplomat
• Robert Penfold (born 1951), Foreign Correspondent for Australia's Nine News
• William Penfold, early settler and founder of the village of Penfield, South Australia

Notable people with the surname Pinfold include:

• Allan Pinfold (born 1929), ring name of Australian professional wrestler Johnny Gilday
• Andrew Pinfold (born 1978), Canadian road cyclist
• Elizabeth Pinfold (1859–1927), New Zealand activist for the Belgian Relief Fund (Commission for Relief in Belgium) in WWI
• Francis Dewsbury Pinfold (1892–1976), New Zealand doctor and politician
• Graeme Pinfold (1936–1986), Australian rules footballer
• James Pinfold (born 1950), English-Canadian physicist

Surname list

This page lists people with the surname Penfold.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.