Trout is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People Austin Trout (born 1985), American boxer, WBA super welterweight champion Bobbi Trout (1906–2003), American female pioneering aviator Charles H. Trout (1935–2006), American historian and college president Dink Trout (1898–1950), American actor and radio personality Dizzy Trout (1915–1972), American Major League Baseball pitcher G. Malcolm Trout (1896–1990), Food science professor, Michigan State University Grace Wilbur Trout (1864–1955), American suffragist Harry E. Trout (1876–1941), head college football coach for the West Virginia University Mountaineers Harry L. Trout, Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania (1915–1920) J. D. Trout (born 1959), American philosopher and cognitive scientist Jack Trout (1935–2017), American advertising and marketing theorist, a founder and pioneer of positioning theory James M. Trout (1850–1910), United States Navy sailor and recipient of the Medal of Honor Jennie Kidd Trout (1841–1921), first female licensed physician in Canada Jessie Trout (1895–1990), Canadian missionary in Japan Michael Trout (Australian politician) (born 1963), member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland Michael Carver Trout (1810–1873), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Mike Trout (born 1991), American Major League Baseball player Monroe Trout (born 1962), formerly American, hedge fund manager Nelson Wesley Trout (1921–1996), first African-American bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Robert Trout (1909–2000), American journalist Ryan Trout (born 1978), American soccer player Steve Trout (born 1957), American Major League Baseball pitcher, son of Dizzy Trout Walter Trout (born 1951), American blues musician
Fictional or mythological characters the title character of the 1968 novel Eva Trout by Elizabeth Bowen Ketil Trout (disambiguation), several figures in Norse folklore Kilgore Trout, created by writer Kurt Vonnegut