Wakefield is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Wakefield's article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent
Laser wakefield acceleration and relativstic optical guiding
A Meter‐Scale Plasma Wakefield Accelerator
Laser injection of ultrashort electron pulses into Wakefield plasma waves
Electron acceleration by self-modulated laser wakefield in a relativistically self-guided channel
A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator
GeV electron beams from a centimeter-scale channel guided laser wakefield acceleratora)
Energy doubling of 42|[thinsp]|GeV electrons in a metre-scale plasma wakefield accelerator
Generating multi-GeV electron bunches using single stage laser wakefield acceleration in a 3D nonlinear regime
Horwitz AV, Wakefield JC. The loss of sadness – how psychiatry transformed normal sorr...