Boston (surname)

Boston is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Absalom Boston (1785–1855), American mariner
• Aliyah Boston (born 2001), American basketball player
• Andrew Boston (born 1994), Australian rules footballer
• Archie Boston Jr. (born 1943), American graphic artist and retired professor
• Bernie Boston (1933–2008), American photographer
• Bob Boston (1918–2002), American baseball player
• Brad Boston (born 1974), Canadian sailor
• Brandon Boston Jr. (born 2001), American basketball player
• Bruce Boston (born 1943), American writer and poet
• Billy Boston (born 1934), Welsh rugby league footballer
• Chief Boston (1917–2002), American football player, college football coach, and United States Army officer
• David Boston (born 1978), American football player
• Daryl Boston (born 1963), American baseball player
• Denzel Boston, American football player
• Frank Boston (1938–2011), American politician
• Frank E. Boston (1890–1960), American physician
• Granger Boston (1921–1958), English cricketer
• Gretha Boston (born 1959), American singer and actress
• Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston (1898–1969), Sierra Leonean diplomat and politician
• Jacques Boston (born 1973), Guinean Anglican bishop
• John Boston (brewer) (died 1804), Australian brewer
• John Boston (politician) (c. 1832–after 1880), American politician
• Jonathan Boston (born 1957), New Zealand academic
• Justin Boston (born 1989), American racing driver
• Lawrence Boston (born 1956), American former basketball player
• Leonard N. Boston (1871–1931), American physician
• Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), British author
• McKinley Boston (born 1945), American university administrator
• Nigel Boston (1961–2024), British-American mathematician
• Paul Boston (born 1952), Australian artist
• Penelope Boston, American speleologist and astrobiologist
• Peter Boston (1918–1999), British architect and illustrator, son of Lucy M. Boston
• Prince Boston (born 1750), American enslaved person, uncle of Absalom Boston
• Rachel Boston (born 1982), American model and actress
• Ralph Boston (1939–2023), American track and field athlete
• Richard Boston (1938–2006), British journalist and writer
• Rob Boston (born 1962), American author, advocate of church-state separation
• Robert Boston (politician) (c. 1836–1922), Canadian politician and farmer
• Roseina Boston (1935–2018), Australian musician
• Shelly Boston (born 1975), Australian former basketball player
• Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham (1930–2011), British politician
• Thomas Boston (1676–1732), Scottish theologian
• Tre Boston (born 1992), American football player
• Walter Boston (1874–1968), Australian politician
• Ward Boston (1923–2008), United States Navy captain

• Carey Hoyt Bostian (1907–2000), American educator and Chancellor of North Carolina State University