Bottomley and its homophone Bottomly are English surnames. They come from the placename formed by combining geographic terms " bottom" and " ley", and which refers to two small settlements each on opposite sides of a hill near Walsden and Halifax, West Yorkshire. It first appears in written records from 1277. Notable people with these surnames include: * Arthur Bottomley (1907–1995), British Labour politician * Christine Bottomley (born 1979), English actress *

Gordon Bottomley Gordon Bottomley (20 February 187425 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and W ...

(1874–1948), English poet * Horatio Bottomley (1860–1933), British journalist, newspaper proprietor and fraudster, MP for Hackney South *

James Bottomley (diplomat) Sir James Reginald Alfred Bottomley, (12 January 1920 – 5 June 2013) was a British diplomat. He was born in London,The village being Cheswardine. the son of Sir (William) Cecil Bottomley, one time Senior Crown Agent, and Alice Bottomley, one ...

(1920–2013), British diplomat *

James Thomson Bottomley James Thomson Bottomley (10 January 1845 – 18 May 1926) was an Irish-born British physicist. He is noted for his work on thermal radiation and on his creation of 4-figure logarithm tables, used to convert long multiplication and division ca ...

(1845–1926), British physicist * Jim Bottomley (1900–1959), baseball player * John Bottomley, Canadian singer-songwriter *John Bottomly, claimant in

Bottomly v. Passamaquoddy Tribe ''Joint Tribal Council of the Passamaquoddy Tribe v. Morton'', 528 F.2d 370 (1st Cir. 1975), was a landmark decision regarding aboriginal title in the United States. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that the Non ...

*John Wallace Bottomley (1934–2017), English television presenter, better known as

John Noakes John Noakes (born John Wallace Bottomley; 6 March 1934 – 28 May 2017) was an English television presenter and former actor. He co-presented the BBC children's magazine programme ''Blue Peter'' in the 1960s and 1970s and was the show's longe ...

Laura Bottomley Dr. Laura Bottomley, from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an electrical engineer. In 2016. Bottomley was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for increasing student interest ...

, American electrical engineer * Norman Bottomley, senior Royal Air Force commander *

Peter Bottomley Sir Peter James Bottomley (born 30 July 1944) is a British Conservative Party politician who has served as a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1975 when elected for Woolwich West, serving until it was abolished before the 1983 general election. ...

(born 1944), British Conservative politician * Susan Bottomly (born 1950), aka International Velvet, American model and actress * Virginia Bottomley (born 1948), British politician * William Bottomley (1882–1966), Unitarian minister in Melbourne, Australia * William Lawrence Bottomley (1883–1951), American architect

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* Bottomly, disruptive student in Australian radio comedy '' Yes, What?''

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{{surname, Bottomley English-language surnames

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