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Duckworth is a surname, and may refer to: * Anthony Duckworth-Chad (born 1942), English businessman and senior county officer * Bob Duckworth, American politician * Brandon Duckworth (born 1976), American baseball player * Christopher Duckworth (born 1933), former South African cricketer * Dick Duckworth (born 1880), English footballer * Dick Duckworth (born 1906), English footballer * Eleanor R. Duckworth (born 1935), Canadian thinker and educator * Frank Duckworth, a cricket statistician who co-invented the Duckworth-Lewis method for determining the result of shortened one-day cricket matches * George Duckworth (1901-1966), English cricketer * Gerald Duckworth (1870–1937), British publisher * Henry Duckworth (born 1915), Canadian physicist and university administrator * Jack Duckworth, fictional character in the soap opera Coronation Street * James Duckworth-Chad (born 1972), son of Anthony Duckworth-Chad * Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth (1747–1817), British naval officer * Col. Joseph Duckworth (1903-1964), American aviator * Keith Duckworth (1933-2005), English engineer * Kevin Duckworth (1964-2008), U.S. basketball player * Muriel Duckworth (1908-2009), Canadian feminist * Canon Noel Duckworth (1912-1980), Canon of Accra * Reverend Robinson Duckworth, contemporary of Lewis Carroll and model for the duck in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland * Tammy Duckworth Assistant Secretary of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs * Terry Duckworth, fictional character in the soap opera Coronation Street * Vera Duckworth, fictional character in the soap opera Coronation Street * William Duckworth (born 1943), U.S. composer * Wynfrid Laurence Henry Duckworth (5 June 1870 - 14 February 1956), English anthropologist (University of Cambridge)