{{Infobox name | name = Jessop | image = | caption = | romanisation = | pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|ˈ|dʒ|ɛ|s|ə|p}} | gender = | masculine = | feminine = | motto = | language = English | languageorigin = {{llink|enm}} | origin = | derivation = | meaning = Joseph | region = | alternative spelling = Jessopp, Jessope, Jessup, Jessep | nickname = | shortform = | petname = | variant forms = | related names = | cognate = | anglicisation = | name day = | derived = | derivative = | seealso = | popularity = | footnotes = <ref>{{cite LPD|3|page=431}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Reaney|first1=P. H.|last2=Wilson|first2=R. M.|title=A Dictionary of English Surnames|edition=3|location=London and New York|publisher=Routledge|orig-year=1958|year=1991|isbn=0-415-05737-X|page=1774}}</ref> }}
'''Jessop''' is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bob Jessop (born 1946), British Marxist theoretician * Carolyn Jessop (born 1968), American author * Charles Minshall Jessop (1861–1939), mathematician * Christine Jessop (1974–1984), Canadian child murdered in 1984 * Clytie Jessop (1929–2017), British actress * Craig Jessop (born 1949), American academic * Elisha Jessop (1843–1918), Canadian doctor and politician * Flora Jessop (born 1969), American social activist * George H. Jessop (1852–1915), Irish playwright * Gilbert Jessop (1874–1955), English cricketer * Gilbert Jessop (cricketer, born 1906), his son, also an English cricketer * Graham Jessop (1957–2012), English marine archaeologist * Greg Jessop, fictional character from the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Job Dean Jessop (1926–2001), American thoroughbred jockey * Josias Jessop (1781–1826), English civil engineer notable for work on canals and railways * Keith Jessop (1933–2010), English salvage diver * Peter Jessop (born 1964), American film actor * Violet Jessop (1887–1971), Argentine nurse and ocean liner stewardess who survived the sinking of the ''RMS Titanic'' in 1912 * William Jessop (disambiguation), multiple people * Willie Jessop, leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
== See also == * Jessep, a surname * Jessop & Company, Indian engineering company * Jessop & Son, department store in the English city of Nottingham now trading as John Lewis & Partners * Jessop of Leicester, British photography retailer now trading as Jessops * Jessup (disambiguation)
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Category:English-language surnames Category:Surnames of English origin Category:Surnames of British Isles origin