Sweet (surname)

Sweet is an Anglo-Saxon surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alec Stone Sweet, a Yale Law School professor, musician and pétanque player
• Alanson Sweet (1804-1891), an American businessman and politician
• Apollo Sweet (born 1957), a Samoan/Australian boxer of the 1980s and '90s
• Blanche Sweet (1896–1986), a silent film actress
• Brad Sweet (born 1985), an American race car driver
• Burton E. Sweet (1867-1957), an American politician
• Darrell Sweet (musician) (1947-1999), a co-founder and drummer of the band Nazareth
• Darrell K. Sweet (1934-2011), an American illustrator
• David Sweet (disambiguation)
• Denise Sweet, a Native American poet and academic, appointed Poet Laureate of Wisconsin in 2004
• Dolph Sweet (1920–1985), an American actor
• Don Sweet (born 1948), a former Canadian Football League kicker
• Elnathan Sweet (1837–1903), a New York State Engineer and Surveyor 1884–1887
• Edwin F. Sweet (1847–1935), a U.S. Representative from Michigan
• Gary Sweet (born 1957), an Australian film and television actor
• George Sweet (1844–1920), an English-born Australian geologist
• Henry Sweet (1845–1912), an English philologist, phonetician and grammarian
• Herbert J. Sweet (1919–1998), a fourth Sergeant Major of the United States Marine Corps
• John Sweet (disambiguation)
• Leonard Sweet (born 1961), an author, preacher, scholar and ordained United Methodist clergyman
• Lynn Sweet (born 1961), a Washington, D.C., bureau chief for the Chicago Sun-Times and columnist
• Lynn Sweet (American football) (1881-1918), an American football player
• Matthew Sweet (born 1964), an alternative rock musician
• Melissa Sweet, Australian human health and medicine journalist
• Melissa Sweet (born 1956), an American children's illustrator who won the 2012 Sibert Medal
• Michael Sweet (disambiguation)
• Ossian Sweet (1895–1960), an American physician
• Rachel Sweet (born 1962), an American singer, writer and actress
• Robert Sweet (disambiguation)
• Sylvanus H. Sweet (1830–1899), a New York State Engineer and Surveyor 1874–1875
• Thaddeus C. Sweet (1872–1928), a New York politician
• Walter C. Sweet (born 1927), an American paleontologist
• William Sweet (disambiguation)
• Willis Sweet (1856-1925), an American politician