Ayrton

Ayrton (/ˈɛərtən/ AIR-tən) is a given name and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

• Ayrton Azzopardi (born 1993), Maltese footballer
• Ayrton Badovini (born 1986), Italian motorcycle racer
• Ayrton Cable (born 2003), Slovak social activist
• Ayrton Cicilia (born 2001), Bonaire footballer
• Ayrton Costa (born 1999), Argentine footballer
• Ayrton De Pauw (born 1998), Belgian racing cyclist
• Ayrton Fagundes (1937–1994), Brazilian broadcast journalist
• Ayrton Ganino (born 1985), Brazilian footballer
• Ayrton Lucas (born 1997), Brazilian footballer
• Ayrton Martino (born 2002), Canadian ice hockey player
• Ayrton Mboko (born 1997), Belgian footballer
• Ayrton Moreira (1917–1975), Brazilian football player
• Ayrton Páez (born 1995), Venezuelan professional footballer
• Ayrton Preciado (born 1994), Ecuadorian soccer player
• Ayrton Ribeiro (born 1997), Portuguese footballer
• Ayrton Sánchez (born 2000), Argentine footballer
• Ayrton Senna (1960–1994), Brazilian racing driver and three-time Formula One world champion
• Ayrton Simmons (born 2001), British racing driver
• Ayrton Statie (born 1994), Bonaire professional footballer
• Ayrton Sweeney (born 1993), South African swimmer
• Ayrton Pinheiro Victor (born 1994), Brazilian footballer

Surname

• Acton Smee Ayrton (1816–1886), British Liberal politician, uncle of William Edward Ayrton
• Barbara Ayrton-Gould (c. 1886 – 1950), a Labour politician in the United Kingdom
• Edith Ayrton (1879–1945), British writer and activist
• Edmund Ayrton (1734–1808), English organist
• Edward R. Ayrton (1882–1914), British Egyptologist
• Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854–1923), British mathematician and physicist, second wife of William Edward Ayrton
• Norman Ayrton (1924–2017), English actor, director, and theatre instructor
• Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (1846–1883), doctor of medicine, first wife of William Edward Ayrton
• Maxwell Ayrton (1874–1960), Scottish architect
• Michael Ayrton (1921–1975), British artist
• Randle Ayrton (1869–1940), British actor, producer and director
• William Edward Ayrton (1847–1908), British physicist who taught in Japan

In fiction

• Tom Ayrton, character in Jules Verne's novels In Search of the Castaways and The Mysterious Island

See also

• All pages with titles containing Ayrton
• Ayrton Drugs, a Ghanaian pharmaceuticals company
• Airton (given name)