Dudley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick (c. 1530–1590), English general and patron of moderate PuritanismAndrew Dudley (c. 1507–1559), English soldier and courtierAnne Dudley (born 1956), English composer and pop musicianAnne Dudley, maiden name of American poet Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672)Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785-1870), American surgeon and academic in Kentucky.Bill Dudley (1921–2010), American football playerBilly Dudley (1931–1980), Nigerian political scientistBob Dudley (born 1955), Chief Executive Officer of BPCarl Dudley (1910–1973), American film director and producerCharles Benjamin Dudley (1842–1909), American chemistChris Dudley (born 1965), American basketball playerDave Dudley (1928–2003), American country singerDoc Dudley (1894-1975), Negro league baseball playerDudd Dudley (1600–1684), pioneer English metallurgistEd Dudley (1901–1963), American golferEdmund Dudley (c. 1462 or 1471/1472–1510), English politician in the Tudor periodEdward Bishop Dudley (1789–1855), American politician, 28th governor of North CarolinaErnest Dudley (1908–2006), British writerLord Guildford Dudley (c. 1535–1554), husband of Lady Jane GreyHelena Dudley (1858-1932) American social worker, labor organizer, and pacifistHenry Sutton Dudley (1517–1568), English soldier, sailor, diplomat, and conspiratorHomer Dudley (1896-1987), American inventor of the vocoder.James Dudley (1910–2004), American baseball player and professional wrestling manager and executiveJames B. Dudley (1859–1925), president of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityJane Dudley (1912–2001), American dancer, choreographer and teacherJane Dudley, Duchess of Northumberland (1508/1509–1555), wife of John Dudley, 1st Duke of NorthumberlandJanet Dudley-Eshbach, President of Salisbury University, MarylandJared Dudley (born 1985), American basketball playerJimmy Dudley (1909–1999), American sportscasterJohn Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504–1553), English general, admiral and politician noted for trying to place Lady Jane Grey on the throne of EnglandJohn Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick (c. 1527–1554), son of the 1st Duke of NorthumberlandJoseph Dudley (1647–1720), a colonial governor of Massachusetts, son of Thomas DudleyKatherine Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (c. 1538 or 1543 to 1545–1620), née Dudley, daughter of the 1st Duke of NorthumberlandMargaret Johnson Erwin Dudley (1821-1863), American plantation owner from Mississippi in the Antebellum South.Marion Dudley (1972–2006), American murdererMary Dudley, Lady Sidney (c. 1530 to 1535–1586), English lady-in-waiting at the court of Queen Elizabeth I, mother of Sir Philip SydneyNathan Dudley (1825–1910), acting brigadier general for the Union Army in the American Civil WarOwen Francis Dudley (1882–1952) English novelist and PriestPaul Dudley (jurist) (1675–1751), Attorney General of Massachusetts, son of Joseph DudleyPaul Dudley (American football) (born 1939)Peter Dudley (1935–1983), English character actorRichard M. Dudley, mathematics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRobert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532–1588), favourite and suitor of Queen Elizabeth I of EnglandRobert Dudley (explorer) (1574–1649), English explorer and cartographerRoger Dudley (between 1535 and 1545–1586?/1590), English soldierSherman H. Dudley (1872-1940), American vaudeville and minstrel show performer and producer, theater ownerTerence Dudley (1919–1988), British television director and producerTheodore Robert Dudley (1936-1944), American botanistThomas Dudley (1576–1653), colonial magistrate and governor of the Massachusetts Bay ColonyUnderwood Dudley (born 1937), American mathematicianWilliam Dudley (colonel) (1766–1813), Kentucky militia officer in the War of 1812William Dudley (bishop) (died 1483), Bishop of DurhamWilliam C. Dudley (born 1952), economist at the New York Federal ReserveWilliam Edward Dudley (1868–1938), administrator in the British co-operative movementWilliam S. Dudley (born 1936), U.S. naval historianWilliam Wade Dudley (1842–1909), American soldier, lawyer and politicianMembers of The Dudley Brothers, a professional wrestling stable (all American, with real names next to their lifespans):Big Dick Dudley (1968–2002; Alex Rizzo)Bubba Ray Dudley (born 1971; Mark LoMonaco)Chubby Dudley (born c. 1970; Bay Ragni)D-Von Dudley (born 1972; Devon Hughes)Dances with Dudley (born c. 1970; Adolfo Bermudez)Dudley Dudley (born 1968; Jeff Bradley)Sign Guy Dudley (born 1970; Lou D'Angeli), wrestling manager and later a marketing executive outside of wrestlingSnot Dudley (born 1970; Michael Deek)Spike Dudley (born 1970; Matthew Hyson)