Scrutton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Clarrie Scrutton (1899–1982), Australian rules footballer, brother of Gordon Daphne Anderson (née Scrutton; 1922–2013), English stage, film, and television actress, dancer and singer Gordon Scrutton (1902–1966), Australian rules footballer, brother of Clarrie Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 1919–2018), British philosopher Michael Scrutton, English cricketer Nigel Shaun Scrutton (born 1964), British biochemist Sir Thomas Edward Scrutton (1856–1934), English legal text-writer and judge