Farnell is an English surname derived from places named Farnell across Britain. Farnell comes from

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

''fearn'' meaning "fern" and ''hyll'' meaning "hill". Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Farnell (born 1978), English boxer * George Stanley Farnell (1861–95), classical scholar and educator, brother of Lewis Richard, below *

James Farnell James Squire Farnell (25 June 1825 – 21 August 1888) was an Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales. Farnell was a hard-working legislator who gave much study to the land question and also tried hard for some years to pass a bill ...

(1825–1888), Australian politician *

Lewis Richard Farnell Lewis Richard Farnell FBA (1856–1934) was a classical scholar and Oxford academic, where he served as vice-chancellor from 1920 to 1923. George Stanley Farnell in the inscription of the 1896 edition of the first volume of the first edition of ...

(1856–1934), Oxford classical scholar

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