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Armistead
Armistead is both a surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- George Armistead (1780–1818), American military officer who served as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812
- James Armistead, American slave and spy in the American Revolution
- Lewis Addison Armistead, Confederate Army general
- Samuel G. Armistead (1927–2013), American ethnographer, linguist, folklorist, historian and Hispanist
- Walker Keith Armistead, United States Army brigadier general
Given name:
- Armistead Burt U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1843 to 1853
- Armistead Mason Dobie, legal educator and federal judge
- Armistead Maupin, American writer
- Armistead Burwell Smith IV, American musician, member of Pinback
- Armistead (d. 1844), slave of US President John Tyler who was killed in the USS Princeton disaster