Coleridge (surname) explained

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

• Amy Coleridge (1864–1951), British actress
• Arthur Coleridge (1830–1913), British lawyer, cricketer and musician
• Bernard Coleridge, 2nd Baron Coleridge (1851–1927), British politician, son of John Duke Coleridge
• Charles Coleridge (1827–1875), English cricketer who played for Hampshire
• Christabel Rose Coleridge (1843–1921), English novelist
• David Coleridge (1932–2020), British insurance underwriter
• Derwent Coleridge (1800–1883, British scholar and teacher, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920), British literary scholar, son of Derwent Coleridge
• Ethel Coleridge (1883–1976), English actress
• Geoffrey Coleridge, 3rd Baron Coleridge (1877–1955), Justice of Peace for Devon
• Georgina Coleridge (1916–2003), Scottish journalist, magazine editor and publishing executive
• Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849), British writer, son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Henry James Coleridge (1822–1893), English writer on religious affairs and preacher
• Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798–1843), British lawyer, nephew and son-in-law of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Herbert Coleridge (1830–1861), British philologist and lexicographer, son of Sara Coleridge and Henry Nelson Coleridge
• James Coleridge (1759–1836), ship's captain and elder brother of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• John Coleridge (Indian Army officer) (1878–1951), British army officer
• John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820–1894), British lawyer and politician, son of John Taylor Coleridge
• John Taylor Coleridge (1790–1876), British judge, nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Mark Coleridge (born 1948), an Australian Roman Catholic archbishop
• Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907), British poet (family connection to Samuel Taylor Coleridge but not a direct descendant)
• Nicholas Coleridge (born 1957), British editor
• Sir Paul Coleridge (born 1949), retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales
• Richard Coleridge, 4th Baron Coleridge (1905–1984), naval officer
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875–1912), British composer
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), British poet and critic
• Sara Coleridge (1802–1852), British writer, daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and wife of her cousin Henry Nelson Coleridge
• Stephen Coleridge (1854–1936), English author
• Sylvia Coleridge (1909–1986), British actress
• William Coleridge (1789–1849), Bishop of Barbados
• William Coleridge, 5th Baron Coleridge (born 1937), British hereditary peer

See also

• showing relationship between many of the above
• Baron Coleridge of Ottery St Mary in the County of Devon, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932–2004), American composer named after Samuel Coleridge-Taylor