Ratcliffe or Ratcliff may refer to: Places United Kingdom Ratcliff or Ratcliffe, former hamlet, Tower Hamlets, London Ratcliffe-on-Soar, a village in Nottinghamshire Ratcliffe on the Wreake, a village in Leicestershire Ratcliffe College, a school in Leicestershire Ratcliffe Culey, a village in Leicestershire United States Ratcliff, Arkansas, a city People Arthur Ratcliffe (1882–1963), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Leek 1931–1935 Derek Ratcliffe (1929–2005), British ecologist Don Ratcliffe (1934–2014), English footballer Francis Ratcliffe (1904–1970), Australian zoologist Henry Butler Ratcliffe (1845–1929), British Conservative Member of Parliament for Bradford Central 1918–1922 J. A. Ratcliffe (1902–1987), British ionospheric physicist and academic Jack Ratcliffe (footballer) (1880–1948), English footballer Jim Ratcliffe (born 1952), British billionaire, chemical engineer and financier Jo Ratcliffe, British artist John Ratcliffe (governor) (1549–1609), governor of the original Jamestown, Virginia, US John Ratcliff (cricketer) (1848–1925), English cricketer John Ratcliffe (American politician) (born 1965), US Congressman from Texas, Director of National Intelligence John W. Ratcliff (born 1961), computer game developer Jordan Ratcliffe, English teenager who went missing in 2008 Kevin Ratcliffe, (born 1960) Welsh footballer Mary Curtis Ratcliff (born 1942), American artist Mildred Ratcliffe (1899–1988), English painter, commercial artist and calligrapher Paddy Ratcliffe (1919–1986), Irish footballer Peter J. Ratcliffe (born 1954), physician-scientist Richard Ratcliffe, husband of the Iranian-British detainee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Richard Ratcliffe (died 1485), English nobleman Richard Ratcliffe (1751–1825), American public official considered to be the founder of the city of Fairfax, Virginia, in 1805 Sandy Ratcliff (1948–2019), English actress Simon Ratcliffe, of house music duo Basement Jaxx Fiction Governor Ratcliffe (Disney), a fictionalized representation in the animated film Pocahontas of John Ratcliffe of the Jamestown colony See also Radcliffe (disambiguation) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (born 1978), detainee in Iran English-language surnames