Chilton is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:Alex Chilton (1950–2010), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, the lead singer of the Box Tops Allenby Chilton (1918–1996), English football player Bart Chilton (1960–2019), commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Charles Chilton (1917–2013), BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer Charles Chilton (zoologist) (1860–1929), New Zealand Chris Chilton (1943–2021), British footballer David Chilton (1951–1997), pastor and Christian Reconstructionist David Barr Chilton, Canadian financial author Emelie C. S. Chilton (1838–1864), American poet, magazine editor Frederick Oliver Chilton Australian brigadier Glen Chilton, Canadian-Australian professor, author, ornithologist and behavioural ecologist Horace Chilton (1853–1932), printer, lawyer, and Democratic US Senator from Texas James Chilton, Mayflower settler John Chilton (1932–2016), British jazz trumpeter and writer Kevin Patrick "Chily" Chilton, 4-star general in the USAF and NASA astronaut Mark Chilton, British cricketer Mark H. Chilton, mayor of Carrboro, North Carolina Mary Chilton, passenger on the Mayflower Mary-Dell Chilton, one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology Maurice Chilton (1898–1956) British Army officer Max Chilton British racing driver competing in Formula 1 Robert H. Chilton (1815–1879), brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; chief of staff for Robert E. Lee Selina Chilton, English actress Shirley Chilton (1923–2013), American businesswoman and politician Thomas Chilton (1798–1854), U.S. Representative from Kentucky, Baptist clergyman, ghostwriter of David Crockett's autobiography Thomas H. Chilton (1899–1972), chemical engineer and professor Tom Chilton, British auto racing driver Tom Chilton for the World of Warcraft game William Chilton (printer) (1815–1855), British printer, socialist, atheist, and evolutionist William E. Chilton (1856–1939), United States Senator from West Virginia William Parish Chilton (1810–1871), lawyer, jurist, and politician serving Alabama and later the Confederate States of America