Washington Allston (1779–1843), an American poet and influential painter

Allston, Boston, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston

Aaron Allston (born 1960), an American novelist

Robert Francis Withers Allston (1801–1864), a Governor of South Carolina

Charles Allston Collins (1828–1873), a British painter and writer

Johanna Allston (born 1986), an Australian orienteer