Loftus (surname) explained

Loftus is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adam Loftus (Archbishop) (1533–1605), Irish Archbishop, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, first provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Loftus (1568–1643), Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1619
• Aisling Loftus (1990–), English actress
• Amy Loftus, American singer
• Cecilia Loftus (1876–1943), Scottish burlesque performer and actress
• Dudley Loftus (died 1616) (1561-1616), an Irish landowner and politician
• Elizabeth Loftus (born 1944), American psychologist and author
• Ernest Achey Loftus (1884-1987), English soldier, teacher and diarist
• Frederick Loftus (1799–1860), cricketer
• Hubert J. Loftus (1924-1995), American politician
• Jamie Loftus (born 1993), American comedian, writer, podcaster, and actress
• John Loftus (born 1950), American author, former US government prosecutor, and former Army intelligence officer
• Johnny Loftus (1895–1976), American horse racing jockey
• Joseph Philip Loftus, Assistant Director at the Johnson Space Center, Senior 1000 Government Official
• Lord Augustus Loftus (Lord Augustus William Frederick Spencer Loftus) (1817–1909), Governor of New South Wales, Australia 1879–1885
• Ruben Loftus-Cheek (born 1996), English football player
• Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus (1927–2010), Irish barrister, politician, and environmentalist
• Thomas Loftus (1917-2011), former Chairman of Leinster Gaelic Athletic Association
• Tom Loftus (1856–1910), American professional baseball player and manager