Meakin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alf Meakin (born 1938), retired track and field athlete
Harry Meakin (1919–1986), footballer who played in The Football League for Stoke City
Lewis Henry Meakin (1850–1917), American Impressionist landscape artist born in Newcastle, England, moving to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1863
Peter Meakin, Australian journalist and the head of news and current affairs at the Seven Network